Astronomy:NGC 3007
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Sextans
| NGC 3007 | |
|---|---|
 legacy surveys image of NGC 3007 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Sextans |
| Right ascension | 09h 47m 45.620s[1] |
| Declination | −06° 26′ 17.40″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.02175[1] |
| Helio radial velocity | 6520 km/s[1] |
| Distance | 330.3 ± 23.2 Mly (101.27 ± 7.11 Mpc)[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 14.41[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | S0/a[1] |
NGC 3007 is an edge-on, magnitude 13.4, lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Sextans,[3] discovered by Édouard Stephan on March 16, 1855.[4] It is about 115 thousand light years across, and with a recessional velocity of 6,520 kilometers per second, is at a distance of over 300 million light-years from the Sun.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Results for object NGC 3007 (NGC 3007)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%203007&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "Search specification: NGC 3007". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%203007. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "NGC 3007". https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC3007. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Celestial Atlas". http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc30.htm#3007. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
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