Q942148
Sign in to savespiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- EmG
- Redshift
- z = 0.008154195820146315
- Coordinates
- RA 148.6191° · Dec -25.7034°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Right ascension
- 09 54 28.605
- Declination
- −25 ° 42 ′ 12.37 ″
- Redshift
- 2,425 km/s
- Distance
- 130 Mly (40 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(r)bc
- Apparent size v
- 3′.8 × 2′.3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- intermediate spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Distance from Earth
- 34.06
- Image
- NGC3054-hst-606.png
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- catalog code
- LEDA 28571
- Commons category
- NGC 3054
- discoverer or inventor
- Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
- time of discovery or invention
- 1859-04-03
- apparent magnitude
- 8.343
- radial velocity
- 2396
- galaxy morphological type
- SBbc
- right ascension
- 148.6191875
- declination
- -25.7034361
- redshift
- 0.008116
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3054 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra. It was discovered by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters in 1859. It is probably in the same galaxy group as NGC 2935.
Supernovae
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q942148” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.