Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.012648750489913926
- Morphology
- SB
- Coordinates
- RA 159.0716° · Dec -27.5297°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Right ascension
- 10 36 17.2
- Declination
- −27 ° 31 ′ 47 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3781 km/s
- Distance
- 184 Mly (56.3 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Hydra Cluster
- Type
- SB(r)0/a pec?
- Size
- ~55,800 ly (17.11 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.9 x 0.3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Image
- PanSTARRS NGC 3307.jpg
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- declination
- -27.52968684936030
- radial velocity
- 3614
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5468055115176854400
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1836-03-22
- apparent magnitude
- 11.165
- redshift
- 0.012702
- right ascension
- 159.07155524780040
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- Commons category
- NGC 3307
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3307 is a lenticular galaxy located about 185 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on March 22, 1836 and is a member of the Hydra Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3307” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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