NGC 3041 — SABc in Leo
SABc in Leo, 3.3 arcminutes across, its light 67 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 3041
What you are looking at
NGC 3041 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. A weak bar of stars crosses its centre. It is tilted about 52° to our line of sight, enough to show both the shape of its arms and the depth of its disc. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 64,000 light-years (taking its redshift distance, which for a galaxy this near is approximate), about half the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a galaxy with an active nucleus, powered by its central black hole. It is cited in 141 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 17 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from NGC 3041 today set out about 67 million years ago, when dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,403 km/s (3.1 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe. For a galaxy this close, its own motion through space is a large share of that speed, so the distance worked out from it is approximate; distances measured from individual stars in it can differ.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, NGC 3041 sits within the constellation Leo. It is best placed on spring evenings: around 9:30 pm in March it stands about 67° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
By apparent size it is number 431 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 28485 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | SABc |
| Angular diameter | 3.25′ |
| Right ascension | 09h53m07.1s |
| Declination | +16°40′39.6″ |
| Constellation | Leo |
| Inclination | 51.5° |
| Light travel time | 67 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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At 3.3 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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