Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 3172 Polarissima Borealis
NGC3172, NGC 3172, Polarissima Borealis
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- UMi
- Right ascension
- 176.80833333°
- Declination
- 89.09305556°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 283978798.0967206 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 15.0
- Catalog source
- openngc_ngc_ic_catalog
- Catalog epoch
- J2000 catalog coordinates
- Position epoch
- J2000
- Selection caveat
- OpenNGC Pax is not treated as parallax for galaxies. Galactic classes never use Hubble-flow redshift or radial-velocity distance, and radial velocity alone is never converted to distance.
- Cosmology
- Not supplied by the source catalog