NGC 3828

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Galaxy
NGC 3828
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation lion
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 11 h 42 m 58.4 s
declination + 16 ° 29 ′ 15 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S / LINER  
Brightness  (visual) 14.8 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.6 mag
Angular expansion 0.8 ′ × 0.5 ′
Position angle 30 °
Surface brightness 13.7 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.034510 ± 0.000090  
Radial velocity 10,346 ± 27 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(460 ± 32)  ·  10 6  ly
(140.9 ± 9.9)  Mpc 
history
discovery Guillaume Bigourdan
Discovery date March 28, 1886
Catalog names
NGC  3828 • PGC  36376 • CGCG  097-075 • MCG  + 03-30-057 • 2MASX  J11425845 + 1629151 • GALEX ASC J114258.44 + 162914.0 • NSA 113265

NGC 3828 is a spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type S in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 460 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 110,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky is the galaxy NGC 3853 .

The object was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on March 28, 1886 .

Web links

Commons : NGC 3828  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f g SEDS : NGC 3828
  3. Seligman