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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
AG?
Redshift
z = 0.01521
Coordinates
RA 147.3125° · Dec 44.1313°
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Key facts

Constellation
Ursa Major
Right ascension
09 49 15.007
Declination
+44 ° 07 ′ 52.86 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4525 km/s
Distance
229.0 ± 16.0 Mly (70.21 ± 4.92 Mpc )
Type
SABc

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3005 is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major, discovered by Bindon Stoney on January 25, 1851. It is a member of the NGC 2998 group, which also includes NGC 2998, NGC 3002, NGC 3006, NGC 3008, and a few others.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3005” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.