NGC 3890
| Galaxy NGC 3890 / NGC 3939 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 49 m 19.8 s |
| declination | + 74 ° 18 ′ 08 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022716 ± 0.000133 |
| Radial velocity | 6810 ± 40 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(310 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (95.1 ± 6.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 12, 1797 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3879 / NGC 3939 • UGC 6788 • PGC 36925 • CGCG 352-008 • MCG + 13-09-003 • IRAS 11465 + 7434 • 2MASX J11491989 + 7418078 • GC 2558/2598 • H III 940 / III 971 • NVSS J114652 + 692255 • WISEA J114649.54 + 692300.9 | |
NGC 3890 = NGC 3939 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble-type Sc in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is an estimated 310 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on December 12, 1797 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .