Astronomy:NGC 3271
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Antlia
| NGC 3271 | |
|---|---|
 DSS image of NGC 3271 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Antlia |
| Right ascension | 10h 30m 26.49s[1] |
| Declination | −35° 21′ 34.2″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.012544[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 3737 ± 27 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 170.8 Mly (52.37 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 11.73[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 12.72[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SB00(r)[1] |
| Other designations | |
| IC 2585, MCG-06-23-044, PGC 30988[2] | |
NGC 3271 is a barred lenticular galaxy[1] in the constellation Antlia.[4] At magnitude 11.7, it is the brightest galaxy in the Antlia Cluster, which lies about 40.7 megaparsecs (132.7 million light-years) away.[5] It was discovered on May 1, 1834 by the astronomer John Herschel.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Results for object NGC 3271 (NGC 3271)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%203271&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "NGC 3271". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+3271.
- ↑ Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal 655 (2): 790–813. doi:10.1086/510201. Bibcode: 2007ApJ...655..790C.
- ↑ Dunlop, Storm (2005). Atlas of the Night Sky. Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-717223-8. https://archive.org/details/collinsatlasofni0000dunl.
- ↑ Dirsch, B.; Richtler, T.; Bassino, L. P. (September 2003). "The globular cluster systems of NGC 3258 and NGC 3268 in the Antlia cluster" (PDF). Astronomy and Astrophysics 408 (3): 929–939. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20031027. Bibcode: 2003A&A...408..929D. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003A%26A...408..929D&link_type=ARTICLE&db_key=AST&high=. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
- ↑ Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 3250 - 3299". http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc32a.htm#3271.
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