NGC 3294 — SABc in Leo Minor
SABc in Leo Minor, 3.1 arcminutes across, its light 75 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 3294
What you are looking at
NGC 3294 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. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 61° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 67,000 light-years, about 69% of the Milky Way’s width.
What astronomers have recorded
Two supernovae have been recorded in it, the first in 1990; the most recent include SN 1990H, SN 1992G. It is cited in 213 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 18 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from NGC 3294 today set out about 75 million years ago, when dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,569 km/s (3.5 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 3294 lies in Leo Minor. It is best placed on spring evenings: around 9:30 pm in April it stands about 87° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
By apparent size it is number 489 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 31428 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | SABc |
| Angular diameter | 3.08′ |
| Right ascension | 10h36m16.2s |
| Declination | +37°19′28.8″ |
| Constellation | Leo Minor |
| Inclination | 60.7° |
| Light travel time | 75 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 3.1 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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