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- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 4,357 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.002885
- Morphology
- SB
- Coordinates
- RA 162.7220° · Dec 13.4121°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 10 50 53.3
- Declination
- +13 ° 24 ′ 43.7 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 864 ± 4 km/s
- Distance
- 42 Mly (13 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(s)0
- Apparent size v
- 3.6′ × 2.0′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 9.77
- Image
- NGC3412 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 32508
- redshift
- 0.002885
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-04-08
- apparent magnitude
- 10.321
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- Commons category
- NGC 3412
- right ascension
- 162.7221375
- declination
- 13.4121417
- radial velocity
- 864
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3412 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Leo. It was discovered on April 8, 1784, by the astronomer William Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3412” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.