Astronomy:NGC 3274
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Short description: Relatively faint spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo
| NGC 3274 | |
|---|---|
 NGC 3274, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Leo |
| Right ascension | 10h 32m 17.281s[1] |
| Declination | +27° 40′ 07.59″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.001791[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 537[2] |
| Distance | 42.82 ± 27.52 Mly (13.129 ± 8.438 Mpc)[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.32[2] |
| Absolute magnitude (V) | -17.88[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SABm[3] |
| Size | 27,300 kly (8,360 kpc)[2] |
| Apparent size (V) | 2.188′ × ?′ |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 5721, MCG+05-25-020, PGC 31122 | |
NGC 3274 is a relatively faint spiral galaxy discovered by Wilhelm Herschel in 1783, and is located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 3274. http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+3274&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ↑ "NGC 3274". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+3274.
- ↑ "Hubble Spies Spiral Galaxy". NASA. November 22, 2016. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2016/hubble-spies-spiral-galaxy.
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