NGC 3507
| Galaxy NGC 3507 |
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| NGC 3507 as imaged with the Liverpool Telescope . | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 03 m 25.3 s |
| declination | + 18 ° 08 ′ 08 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) b / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.4 ′ × 2.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 110 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 3607 group LGG 228 |
| Redshift | 0.003266 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 979 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(40 ± 3) x 10 6 ly (12.4 ± 0.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 14, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3507 • UGC 6123 • PGC 33390 • CGCG 095-100 • MCG + 03-28-053 • 2MASX J11032539 + 1808072 • GC 2290 • H IV 7 • h 812 • HIPASS J1103 + 18 • HOLM 224A • LDCE 778 NED018 | |
NGC 3507 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 40 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 40,000 ly. Together with NGC 3501 , it forms the galaxy pair Holm 224 .
In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 3487 .
The object was discovered on March 14, 1784 by the astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
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