Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.02268
- Morphology
- SO-a
- Coordinates
- RA 176.0033° · Dec 20.0293°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 11 44 00.8
- Declination
- 20 ° 01 ′ 46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6779 km/s
- Distance
- 320 Mly (97 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Leo Cluster
- Type
- S0/a
- Size
- ~136,000 ly (41.6 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.2 x 0.2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 99.67
- Image
- SDSS NGC 3844.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3976028526452865792
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-05-08
- apparent magnitude
- 12.918
- redshift
- 0.02268
- Commons category
- NGC 3844
- right ascension
- 176.00331538495370
- declination
- 20.02932394363310
- radial velocity
- 6722
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3844 is a lenticular galaxy located about 320 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on May 8, 1864. NGC 3844 is a member of the Leo Cluster and is likely to be a low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN).
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3844” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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