Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- EmG
- Redshift
- z = 0.003933
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 150.2169° · Dec 55.6189°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 10 00 52.042
- Declination
- +55 ° 37 ′ 08.17 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1177 km/s
- Distance
- 65 Mly (20 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 3079 Group
- Type
- SAB0
- Size
- ~40,300 ly (12.36 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.2′ × 1.1′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 19.80
- Image
- NGC 3073 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- catalog code
- UZC J100052.1+553707
- Commons category
- NGC 3073
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-04-01
- apparent magnitude
- 10.804
- right ascension
- 150.2168417
- declination
- 55.6189361
- redshift
- 0.003933
- radial velocity
- 1177
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- S0gas
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3073 is a dwarf lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is at a distance of about 65 million light-years (20 megaparsecs) from Earth. NGC 3073 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 1 April 1790.
NGC 3073 belongs to the NGC 3079 Group (also known as LGG 188), which contains six galaxies. The other galaxies in the group are NGC 3079, UGC 5421, UGC 5479, UGC 5459, and UGC 5460. The galaxies NGC 3073 and NGC 3079 are also listed together as Holm 156 in Erik Holmberg's A Study of Double and Multiple Galaxies Together with Inquiries into some General Metagalactic Problems, published in 1937.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1102810” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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