Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- EmG
- Redshift
- z = 0.013235823297462673
- Morphology
- SB(rs)0
- Coordinates
- RA 159.4055° · Dec -27.5941°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Right ascension
- 10 37 37.3
- Declination
- −27 ° 35 ′ 39 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3940 km/s
- Distance
- 191 Mly (58.5 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Hydra Cluster
- Type
- SB(rs)0^0
- Size
- ~79,700 ly (24.43 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.3 x 1.1
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Wikidata facts
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5468096626031441792
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-03-26
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 9.630
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- redshift
- 0.014053
- right ascension
- 159.40548979727710
- declination
- -27.59412358494950
- radial velocity
- 3971
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 3316
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3316 is a barred lenticular galaxy located about 190 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on March 26, 1835. NGC 3316 is a member of the Hydra Cluster, and appears to have a small companion galaxy known as HCC 15.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3316” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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