NGC 3500
| Galaxy NGC 3500 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 01 m 51.5 s |
| declination | + 7512 ° 05 ′ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 54 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.011565 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | (3467 ± 10) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(161 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (49.3 ± 3.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 2, 1801 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3500 • UGC 6090 • PGC 33277 • CGCG 351-052 • MCG + 13-08-052 • 2MASX J11015144 + 7512050 • GC 2284,2285 • H III 968 • | |
NGC 3500 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Draco the northern sky . It is an estimated 161 million light years away from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 2nd, 1801 . On his sky scan on the night of April 2, 1801, apparently using his usual method, north to south or vice versa with a fixed declination, William Herschel observed 15 objects whose reported positions were largely incorrect, an error that made the identification of the objects difficult , if not made impossible.