NGC 3486
| Galaxy NGC 3486 |
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| Image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3486 with the help of the 81 cm mirror telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 00 m 23.9 s |
| declination | + 28 ° 58 ′ 30 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (r) c / HII / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 7.1 ′ × 5.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 80 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.002272 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 681 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(29 ± 2) · 10 6 ly (8.87 ± 0.62) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3486 • UGC 6079 • PGC 33166 • CGCG 155-41 • MCG + 05-26-32 • IRAS 10576 + 2914 • 2MASX J11002394 + 2858293 • GC 2274 • H I 87 • h 805 • LDCE 0743 NED009 | |
NGC 3486 is an SBc-type bar spiral galaxy in the constellation Little Leo . It is estimated to be 29 million light years from the Milky Way and is listed as a Seyfert 2 galaxy .
NGC 3486 was discovered by William Herschel on April 11, 1785 using an 18.7-inch telescope.
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Detailed image of the center of NGC 3486, taken with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope
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