Key facts
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Right ascension
- 10 30 26.49
- Declination
- −35 ° 21 ′ 34.2 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3737 ± 27 km/s
- Distance
- 170.8 Mly (52.37 Mpc )
- Type
- SB0 (r)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Distance from Earth
- 52.37
- Image
- NGC 3271 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 30988
- apparent magnitude
- 8.154
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-05-01
- redshift
- 0.012465
- right ascension
- 157.6103375
- declination
- -35.3595389
- radial velocity
- 3824
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 3271
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3271 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia. 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. It was discovered on May 1, 1834 by the astronomer John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3271” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.