| NGC 3751 | |
|---|---|
 NGC 3751 is located at the bottommost left of the image below NGC 3750, NGC 3753 and NGC 3754 which was taken by Mount Lemmon Observatory | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Leo |
| Right ascension | 11h 37m 53.859s |
| Declination | +21d 56m 11.34s |
| Redshift | 0.031328 |
| Heliocentric radial velocity | 9,392 km/s |
| Distance | 450 Mly (138 Mpc) |
| Group or cluster | Copeland Septet |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 14.3 |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E4, E-S0 |
| Size | 144,000 ly |
| Other designations | |
| PGC 36017, UGC 6601, MCG +04-28-009, 2MASX J11375386+2156110, SDSS J113753.85+215611.3, Copeland Septet NED05, HCG 057F, NSA 112845, SSTSL2 J113753.87+215611.2, LEDA 36017 | |
NGC 3751 is a type E-S0[1] lenticular galaxy located in the Leo constellation.[2] It is located 450 million light-years away from the Solar System[3] and was discovered by Ralph Copeland on April 5, 1874.[4]
To date, a non-redshift measurement gives a distance of approximately 138,000 Mpc (450 million light-years) for NGC 3751. This value is within the Hubble Distance values.[5]
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