NGC 3806
| Galaxy NGC 3806 |
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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 40 m 46.6 s |
| declination | + 17 ° 47 ′ 47 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SABb |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.2 ′ × 1.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 169 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation |
NGC 3800 group WBL 347 LGG 246 |
| Redshift | 0.011658 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 3495 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(154 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (47.1 ± 3.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | April 21, 1862 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3806 • UGC 6641 • PGC 36231 • CGCG 097-054 • MCG + 03-30-042 • IRAS F11382 + 1804 • 2MASX J11404661 + 1747468 • GALEX ASC J114046.75 + 174746.1 • USGC U408 NED01 | |
NGC 3806 is a faint barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Leo north of the ecliptic . It is an estimated 154 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 100,000 light-years across.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 3768 , NGC 3790 , NGC 3801 , NGC 3802 .
The object was discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on April 21, 1862 .