NGC 3703
| Galaxy NGC 3703 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | cups |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 29 m 09.3 s |
| declination | -08 ° 26 ′ 47 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S. |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.037563 ± 0.000150 |
| Radial velocity | 11,261 ± 45 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(497 ± 35) · 10 6 ly (152.3 ± 10.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ormond Stone |
| Discovery date | December 31, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3703 • PGC 170146 • 2MASX J11290939-0826468 • GALEX ASC J112909.43-082645.9 • NVSS J112909-082647 | |
NGC 3703 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type S in the constellation cup at the southern sky . It is estimated to be 497 million light years from the Milky Way and about 120,000 light years in diameter .
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 3688 and NGC 3702 .
The object was discovered by Ormond Stone on December 31, 1885 .
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