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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
LIN
Redshift
z = 0.03226
Coordinates
RA 167.2868° · Dec 28.6725°
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Key facts

Constellation
Ursa Major
Right ascension
11 09 08.840
Declination
+28 ° 40 ′ 21.30 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
9527 km/s
Distance
561.61 ± 0.65 Mly (172.19 ± 0.20 Mpc )
Group or cluster
Abell 1185
Type
S0/a
Apparent size v
1.1 ′ × 0.25 ′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Ursa Major
Distance from Earth
172.19
Image
NGC3539 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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epoch
J2000.0
catalog code
LEDA 33799
redshift
0.032379
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1831-04-13
apparent magnitude
13.108
galaxy morphological type
3
Commons category
NGC 3539
right ascension
167.2868333
declination
28.6725833
radial velocity
9527
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3539 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered in April 1831 by John Herschel. It is a member of the galaxy cluster Abell 1185.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3539” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.