NGC 3694
| Galaxy NGC 3694 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 28 m 54.1 s |
| declination | + 35 ° 24 ′ 50 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E. |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 20 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007482 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 2243 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(100 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (30.7 ± 2.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 11, 1831 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3694 • UGC 6480 • PGC 35352 • CGCG 185-070 • MCG + 06-25-076 • IRAS 11262 + 3541 • 2MASX J11285413 + 3524498 • GALEX ASC J112854.16 + 352451.0 • LDCE 819 NED001 | |
NGC 3694 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E2 in the constellation Ursa Major at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 100 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 30,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 3695 and NGC 3700 .
The object was discovered by John Herschel on March 11, 1831 .