NGC 3059

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Galaxy in the constellation Carina

NGC 3059
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 3059
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Carina
Right ascension	09h 50m 08.181s[1]
Declination	−73° 55′ 19.96″[1]
Redshift	0.004244[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	1269.5 km/s[2]
Distance	48.3 Mly (14.80 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)	11.24[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	11.56[2]
Characteristics
Type	SB(rs)bc[3]
Other designations
PGC 28298[2]

NGC 3059 is a barred spiral galaxy. It is located in the constellation of Carina.^[4] The galaxy can be described as being faint, large, and irregularly round. It was discovered on February 22, 1835, by John Herschel.^[5] The galaxy has been calculated to be 45 - 50 million lightyears from Earth.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} "NGC 3059". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Results for object NGC 3059 (NGC 3059)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
4. ^ NGC 3059
5. ^ New General Catalog Objects: NGC 3050 - 3099

External links

• NGC 3059 - Galaxy - SKY-MAP
• NGC 3059 - DeepSkyPedia :: Astronomy Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
• The kinematics of the barred spiral galaxy NGC3059* - Harvard.edu

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