Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 10 23 27.0
- Declination
- +19 ° 53 ′ 55 ″
- Redshift
- 1151 ± 10 km/ s
- Type
- E2 pec
- Apparent size v
- 3.2 ′ × 2.8 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 23.55
- Image
- NGC 3227 NGC 3226 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 30440
- radial velocity
- 1338
- Commons category
- NGC 3226
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-02-15
- apparent magnitude
- 8.570
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- right ascension
- 155.86252801690080
- declination
- 19.89852286925420
- redshift
- 0.003839
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3226 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy that is interacting with the spiral galaxy NGC 3227. They were both discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 15 February 1784. The two galaxies are one of several examples of a spiral with a dwarf elliptical companion that are listed in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Both galaxies may be found in the constellation Leo. It is a member of the NGC 3227 Group of galaxies, which is a member of the Leo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the right edge of the Virgo Supercluster.
Nucleus
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3226” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.