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NGC 3982
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 11 56 28.1280
- Declination
- +55 ° 07 ′ 30.766 ″
- Redshift
- 0.003 741 ± 0.000 000 638
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1122 ± 0 km/ s
- Distance
- 67.8 ± 2.5 Mly (20.80 ± 0.77 Mpc ) , 70.38 ± 0.23 Mly (21.58 ± 0.07 Mpc)
- Group or cluster
- M109 Group
- Type
- SAB(r)b
- Size
- ~50,400 ly (15.44 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.7′ × 1.5′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Parent body
- M109 Group
- Distance from Earth
- 19.8
- Image
- NGC 3982 - Hubble space telescope, 2003.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- SABbc
- catalog code
- [SMM2006b] J115628.15+550731.0
- Commons category
- NGC 3982
- time of discovery or invention
- 1789-04-14
- apparent magnitude
- 11.978
- declination
- 55.1253611
- redshift
- 0.00371
- right ascension
- 179.117167
- radial velocity
- 1110
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3982 is an intermediate spiral galaxy approximately 68 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on April 14, 1789, and misclassified as a planetary nebula. NGC 3982 is a part of the M109 Group.
At an apparent magnitude of 12.0, NGC 3982 needs a telescope to be viewed. Using small telescopes, the galaxy appears as a very faint, diffuse patch of light, with its central region appearing as a slightly brighter diffuse ball.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3982” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.