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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
Sy2
Redshift
z = 0.013263
Coordinates
RA 158.9477° · Dec -32.3585°
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Key facts

Constellation
Antlia
Right ascension
10 35 47.417
Declination
−32 ° 21 ′ 30.76 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3950 km/s
Distance
64.99 ± 4.57 Mly (19.93 ± 1.40 Mpc )
Type
SA0

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
galaxy
Constellation
Antlia
Image
NGC 3302 DSS.jpg
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epoch
J2000.0
catalog code
LEDA 31391
galaxy morphological type
S0
time of discovery or invention
1835-01-28
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
apparent magnitude
9.349
right ascension
158.9475708
declination
-32.3585444
radial velocity
3950
redshift
0.013263
Commons category
NGC 3302
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3302 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It was discovered by the astronomer John Herschel on January 28, 1835.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3302” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.