NGC 3430 — Sc in Leo Minor
Sc in Leo Minor, 4.0 arcminutes across, its light 76 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 3430
What you are looking at
NGC 3430 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. It is tilted about 58° 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 88,000 light-years, close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as one of a pair of galaxies. One supernova has been recorded in it: SN 2004ez. It is cited in 239 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 22 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
Its light has been travelling for about 76 million years. When it left, dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,584 km/s (3.5 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 3430 lies in Leo Minor. It is best placed on spring evenings: around 9:30 pm in April it stands about 83° 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 3424 (0.1° away on the sky, at least 130,000 light-years from it); NGC 3396 (0.5° away on the sky, at least 630,000 light-years from it); NGC 3395 (0.5° away on the sky, at least 660,000 light-years from it); IC 2604 (0.6° away on the sky, at least 810,000 light-years from it), and 4 more.
By apparent size it is number 239 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 32614 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 3.99′ |
| Right ascension | 10h52m11.4s |
| Declination | +32°57′01.5″ |
| Constellation | Leo Minor |
| Inclination | 58.0° |
| Light travel time | 76 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
A print of this galaxy and the record of the calculation, once. When it sells it leaves the register and is not offered again. We assign no names and no ownership — nobody can sell you those.
At 4.0 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.
Take this galaxy — $1,290 Browse the Collection