NGC 3517

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Galaxy
NGC 3517
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Big Bear
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 11 h 05 m 36.8 s
declination + 56 ° 31 ′ 30 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sb  
Brightness  (visual) 13.0 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 13.8 mag
Angular expansion 1 ′ × 0.8 ′
Position angle 120 °
Surface brightness 12.6 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.027385 ± 0.000167  
Radial velocity (8210 ± 50) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(370 ± 26)  x  10 6  ly
(113.4 ± 8.0)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date April 7, 1793
Catalog names
NGC  3517 • UGC  6144 • PGC  33532 • ESO  570-001 • MCG  + 10-16-057 • 2MASX  J11053683 + 5631296 • GC  2299 • H  II 884 • h  817 • LDCE 0729 NED206

NGC 3517 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb and is located in the constellation Ursa Major north of the celestial equator . It is an estimated 370 million light years from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 7, 1793 .

Web links

Commons : NGC 3517  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 3517
  3. Seligman