NGC 3877
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 3877 is referenced by 552 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Ursa Major, NGC 3576 and list of NGC objects (3001–4000).
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1788, Discoveries by William Herschel and IRAS catalogue objects.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 11 46 07.7281
- Declination
- +47 ° 29 ′ 40.369 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 895 ± 4 km/s
- Distance
- 50.5 ± 4.2 M ly , (15.5 ± 1.3 M pc )
- Type
- Sc
- Size
- ~80,900 ly (24.80 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 4.4′ × 0.8′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- M109 Group
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Parent body
- M109 Group
- Distance from Earth
- 14
- Image
- NGC 3877.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- SAc
- catalog code
- [SLK2004] 633
- Commons category
- NGC 3877
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-02-05
- apparent magnitude
- 10.817
- redshift
- 0.00302
- right ascension
- 176.5324250
- declination
- 47.4945000
- radial velocity
- 904
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3877 is a type Sc spiral galaxy that was discovered by William Herschel on February 5, 1788. It is located south of the magnitude 3.7 star Chi Ursae Majoris in Ursa Major.
NGC 3877 next to the 3.7 magnatude star Chi Ursae Majoris (χ UMa)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3877” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.