NGC 3402
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Right ascension
- 10 50 26.104
- Declination
- −12 ° 50 ′ 42.26 ″
- Redshift
- 4579 km/s
- Distance
- 305.42 ± 88.60 Mly (93.643 ± 27.165 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude v
- −23.05
- Type
- cD
- Size
- 194,400 ly (59,610 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 2.1′ × 2.1′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Distance from Earth
- 75.93
- Image
- NGC 3411 PanS.jpg
- Said to be same as
- NGC 3411
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- catalog code
- LEDA 32479
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-03-25
- apparent magnitude
- 8.919
- redshift
- 0.016668
- right ascension
- 162.6087667
- declination
- -12.8450722
- radial velocity
- 4579
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 3402
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3402, also known as NGC 3411, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Hydra. The object was discovered on March 25, 1786 by German-British astronomer William Herschel. NGC 3402 is the largest galaxy in the eponymous NGC 3402 cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3402” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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