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galaxy

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.