Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 3979
NGC3979, NGC 3979, IC 2976, IC2976
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- Vir
- Right ascension
- 179.004375°
- Declination
- -2.72086111°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 277832675.5604413 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 13.96
- 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