NGC 3794

NGC 3794, also cataloged in the New General Catalogue as NGC 3804, is a low-surface-brightness galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is very far from Earth, with a distance of about 68,470,000 light-years (20,990,000 pc).

NGC 3794
An image of NGC 3794 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationUrsa Major
Right ascension 11h 40m 53.4s[1]
Declination+56° 12′ 07″[1]
Redshift1385 km/s[1]
Distance68.5 Mly (20.99 Mpc)[2]
Other designations
NGC 3804

References
  1. "Results for NGC 3794". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  2. "NGC 3794". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  • Media related to NGC 3794 at Wikimedia Commons


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