NGC 3003 is a nearly edge-on barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Leo Minor, discovered by William Herschel on December 7, 1785. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 11.78, at a distance of 19.5 Mpc from the Sun. It has a recessional velocity of 1474 km/s.
Supernova
One supernova has been observed in NGC 3003: SN 1961F (type II, mag. 13.1) was discovered by Paul Wild on 21 February 1961.567
External links
- Media related to NGC 3003 at Wikimedia Commons
References
"New General Catalog Objects: NGC 3000 - 3049". cseligman.com. https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc30.htm#3003 ↩
"Search specification: NGC 3003". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-02-10. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%203003 ↩
Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 21. arXiv:1605.01765. Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. S2CID 250737862. 50. https://doi.org/10.3847%2F0004-6256%2F152%2F2%2F50 ↩
"NGC 3003". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-02-10. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+3003 ↩
Thernoe, K. A. (6 March 1961). "Circular No. 1753". Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. Observatory Copenhagen. Retrieved 30 November 2024. http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/IAUCs/IAUC1753.jpg ↩
"SN 1961F". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-02-10. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=SN+1961F ↩
"SN 1961F". Transient Name Server. IAU. Retrieved 30 November 2024. https://www.wis-tns.org/object/1961F ↩