Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 11 43 56.4
- Declination
- 19 ° 53 ′ 40 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6130 km/s
- Distance
- 287 Mly (88.1 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Leo Cluster
- Type
- E
- Size
- ~129,000 ly (39.4 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.6 x 0.6
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 92.02
- Image
- SDSS NGC 3837.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 6235
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3975991963395682688
- galaxy morphological type
- Sab
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-04-26
- apparent magnitude
- 12.199
- Commons category
- NGC 3837
- redshift
- 0.020447
- right ascension
- 175.98507428948050
- declination
- 19.89455780263770
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3837 is an elliptical galaxy located about 290 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 26, 1785. NGC 3837 is a member of the Leo Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3837” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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