Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 11 10 38.26
- Declination
- +28 ° 46 ′ 02.2 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 10336 km/s
- Distance
- 490 Mly (150 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 150
- Image
- NGC3550 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 33927
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-04-11
- apparent magnitude
- 14.12
- right ascension
- 167.659417
- declination
- 28.767278
- redshift
- 0.035094
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 10336
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3550 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered on April 11, 1785, by William Herschel. It is one of the brightest galaxies of the Abell 1185 galaxy cluster.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3550” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.