NGC 3715
| Galaxy NGC 3715 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Southern crown |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 31 m 32.3 s |
| declination | -14 ° 13 ′ 53 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SB (rs) bc: / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 145 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007085 +/- 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | 2124 +/- 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(88 ± 6) x 10 6 ly (26.9 ± 1.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 27, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3715 • PGC 35540 • MCG -02-29-041 • IRAS 11290-1357 • 2MASX J11313233-1413527 • GC 2441 • H II 562 • h 3347 • | |
NGC 3715 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SB (rs) bc in the constellation Crater in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 88 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 40,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 3727 , NGC 3734 , IC 706 .
The object was discovered on March 27, 1786 by the astronomer William Herschel .