Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Redshift
- z = 0.005277567589133225
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 159.0677° · Dec 37.3247°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo Minor
- Right ascension
- 10 36 16.255
- Declination
- +37 ° 19 ′ 29.02 ″
- Redshift
- 0.00523 ± 0.00001
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,586 km/s
- Distance
- 98.0 Mly (30.1 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(rs)bc
- Apparent size v
- 2.223 ′ × 0.978′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo Minor
- Distance from Earth
- 29.5
- Image
- N3294s.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 751916252313888000
- Commons category
- NGC 3294
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 10.787
- galaxy morphological type
- SAc
- right ascension
- 159.06772712371340
- declination
- 37.32472866560090
- radial velocity
- 1564
- redshift
- 0.00523
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3294 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor. It was discovered by William Herschel on Mar 17, 1787. It 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. The galaxy is located at a distance of 98 million light years and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 1,586 km/s. The morphological class of NGC 3294 is SA(rs)bc, which means this is a spiral galaxy with no central bar (SA), an incomplete inner ring structure (rs), and moderately wound spiral arms (bc).
This galaxy has been host to a pair of supernova events:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1104107” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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