Key facts
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Right ascension
- 10 29 06.39496
- Declination
- −35 ° 35 ′ 42.4860 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2349 km/s
- Distance
- 108.0 Mly (33.11 Mpc )
- Type
- E pec:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Distance from Earth
- 37.5
- Image
- NGC 3260 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5445607627515558272
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-05-12
- redshift
- 0.008059
- apparent magnitude
- 9.421
- right ascension
- 157.27664568279550
- declination
- -35.59513498768970
- radial velocity
- 2117
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 3260
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3260 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It is a member of the Antlia Cluster, which lies about 40.7 megaparsecs (132.7 million light-years) away. It was discovered on May 2, 1834 by the astronomer John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3260” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.