Key facts
- Constellation
- Crater
- Right ascension
- 11 56 07.4
- Declination
- −19 ° 53 ′ 46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1723 km/s
- Distance
- 65 Mly (19.9 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 4038 Group
- Type
- SA(rs)bc
- Size
- ~105,100 ly (32.22 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 5.2 x 2.3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Crater
- Distance from Earth
- 18
- Image
- A Galactic Gem NGC 3981.tif
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- catalog code
- LEDA 37496
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-02-07
- apparent magnitude
- 8.463
- redshift
- 0.005747
- right ascension
- 179.0310208
- declination
- -19.8961778
- radial velocity
- 1717
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 3981
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3981 is an unbarred spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Crater. It was discovered on February 7, 1785, by William Herschel.
NGC 3981 is a member of the NGC 4038 Group which is part of the Virgo Supercluster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3981” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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