Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 11 40 53.42
- Declination
- +56 ° 12 ′ 07.3 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1385 km/ s
- Distance
- 68.5 Mly (20.99 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(s)d
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 19
- Image
- NGC 3794 HST 10829 606.png
- Said to be same as
- NGC 3804
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 844690775723899392
- Commons category
- NGC 3794
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1789-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 13.488
- galaxy morphological type
- SAd
- right ascension
- 175.22595913004050
- declination
- 56.20207976647020
- redshift
- 0.004610
- radial velocity
- 1487
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.019
- declination component of proper motion
- -1.360
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3794, also cataloged in the New General Catalogue as NGC 3804, is a low-surface-brightness galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is very far from Earth, with a distance of about 68,470,000 light-years (20,990,000 pc). It was discovered on April 14, 1789, by the astronomer William Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q2001491” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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