Key facts
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Right ascension
- 10 30 26.49
- Declination
- −35 ° 21 ′ 34.2 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3737 ± 27 km/s
- Distance
- 170.8 Mly (52.37 Mpc )
- Type
- SB0 (r)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3271 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia. At magnitude 11.7, it is the brightest galaxy in the Antlia Cluster, which lies about 40.7 megaparsecs (132.7 million light-years) away. It was discovered on May 1, 1834 by the astronomer John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3271” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.