Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.003776404841849823
- Morphology
- Sd-Im
- Coordinates
- RA 163.2505° · Dec 17.5736°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 10 53 00.1481
- Declination
- +17 ° 34 ′ 26.497 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1132 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 70.6 ± 5.1 Mly (21.66 ± 1.56 Mpc )
- Type
- SAd
- Size
- ~68,000 ly (20.8 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.8′ × 1.4′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 25.35
- Image
- NGC3443 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 32671
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1887-04-24
- apparent magnitude
- 13.90
- Commons category
- NGC 3443
- right ascension
- 163.2504875
- declination
- 17.5736278
- radial velocity
- 1026
- redshift
- 0.003776
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3443 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Leo. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1468 ± 24 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 21.66 ± 1.56 Mpc (~70.6 million light-years). It was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift on April 24, 1887.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 3443: SN 2024ehs (Type II, mag. 18.098) was discovered by ATLAS on March 15, 2024.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3443” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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