Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 3956
NGC3956, NGC 3956
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- Crt
- Right ascension
- 178.502875°
- Declination
- -20.56733333°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 77147806.29061425 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 12.46
- 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