NGC 3877
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 11 46 07.7281
- Declination
- +47 ° 29 ′ 40.369 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 895 ± 4 km/s
- Distance
- 50.5 ± 4.2 M ly , (15.5 ± 1.3 M pc )
- Type
- Sc
- Size
- ~80,900 ly (24.80 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 4.4′ × 0.8′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- M109 Group
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Parent body
- M109 Group
- Distance from Earth
- 14
- Image
- NGC 3877.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- SAc
- catalog code
- [SLK2004] 633
- Commons category
- NGC 3877
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-02-05
- apparent magnitude
- 10.817
- redshift
- 0.00302
- right ascension
- 176.5324250
- declination
- 47.4945000
- radial velocity
- 904
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3877 is a type Sc spiral galaxy that was discovered by William Herschel on February 5, 1788. It is located south of the magnitude 3.7 star Chi Ursae Majoris in Ursa Major.
NGC 3877 next to the 3.7 magnatude star Chi Ursae Majoris (χ UMa)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3877” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.