NGC 3200 — Sc in Hydra
Sc in Hydra, 4.1 arcminutes across, its light 168 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 3200
What you are looking at
NGC 3200 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 79° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 198,000 light-years, about 2.0 times the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
One supernova has been recorded in it: SN 1953D. It is cited in 128 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 15 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from NGC 3200 today set out about 168 million years ago, when Pangaea had begun to break apart. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 3,521 km/s (7.9 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 3200 lies in Hydra. It is best placed on spring evenings: around 9:30 pm in April it stands about 32° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: NGC 3178 (2.3° away on the sky, at least 6,620,000 light-years from it); NGC 3171 (2.8° away on the sky, at least 8,050,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 229 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 30108 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 4.07′ |
| Right ascension | 10h18m36.5s |
| Declination | -17°58′57.0″ |
| Constellation | Hydra |
| Inclination | 79.1° |
| Light travel time | 168 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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