Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 11 44 02.1
- Declination
- 19 ° 58 ′ 19 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6356 km/s
- Distance
- 297 Mly (91.1 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Leo Cluster
- Type
- E-S0
- Size
- ~69,000 ly (21.1 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.7 x 0.7
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 93.17
- Image
- SDSS NGC 3841.jpeg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3976015916428882688
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-03-25
- apparent magnitude
- 13.052
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 3841
- redshift
- 0.021225
- right ascension
- 176.00899807116380
- declination
- 19.97191367919420
- radial velocity
- 6256
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3841 is an elliptical or lenticular galaxy located about 300 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on March 25, 1827 is a member of the Leo Cluster.
On November 17, 2006 a Type Ia supernova designated as SN 2006oq was found near NGC 3841. However it was not associated with the galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3841” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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