Key facts
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Right ascension
- 10 36 11.7
- Declination
- −27 ° 09 ′ 44 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3927 km/s
- Distance
- 190 Mly (58.3 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Hydra Cluster
- Type
- E0
- Size
- ~70,900 ly (21.74 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.1 x 1.1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Distance from Earth
- 57.77
- Image
- PanSTARRS NGC 3305.jpg
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- catalog code
- FLASH J103612.30-270942.2
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-03-24
- apparent magnitude
- 9.473
- redshift
- 0.013349
- right ascension
- 159.0493000
- declination
- -27.1622167
- radial velocity
- 3975
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 3305
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3305 is an elliptical galaxy located about 190 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on March 24, 1835. NGC 3305 is a member of the Hydra Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3305” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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