NGC 3951
| Galaxy NGC 3951 |
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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 53 m 41.2 s |
| declination | + 23 ° 22 ′ 56 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sa / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 172 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.021542 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 6458 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(287 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (88.0 ± 6.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 10, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3951 • UGC 6867 • PGC 37288 • CGCG 127-099 • MCG + 04-28-090 • IRAS 11511 + 2339 • 2MASX J11534125 + 2322557 • GC 2605 • H III 342 • h 1010 • NVSS J115341 + 232255 • LDCE 851 NED004 | |
NGC 3951 is a spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble-type S in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 287 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 95,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 3983 , NGC 4002 , IC 739 , IC 744 .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 10, 1785 .
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