NGC 3692
| Galaxy NGC 3692 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 28 m 24.0 s |
| declination | + 09 ° 24 ′ 27 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb / LINER / Sy? / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.1 'x 0.7' |
| Position angle | 95 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.005757 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 1726 ± 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(73 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (22.4 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 15, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3692 • UGC 6474 • PGC 35314 • CGCG 067-084 • MCG + 02-29-032 • IRAS 11258 + 0940 • 2MASX J11282405 + 0924279 • GC 2428 • H II 152 • HIPASS J1128 + 09a | |
NGC 3692 is an active spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 73 million light years from the Milky Way and about 70,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies IC 2842 , IC 2853 , IC 2855 , IC 2857 .
The object was discovered on April 15, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel .
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