Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3718  ·  NGC 3729

Image of the day 05/25/2022

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 3718, Jared Willson
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 3718

Revision title: v2

Image of the day 05/25/2022

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 3718, Jared Willson
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 3718

Revision title: v2

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

NGC 3718 is an 'S' shaped and heavily warped spiral or lenticular galaxy located at a distance of fifty-two million light years in the constellation Ursa Major. The distortion to its shape likely comes from gravitational interactions with another galaxy,  possibly with NGC 3729, the spiral galaxy located to the right in this image. Just above NGC 3718 is a cluster of interacting galaxies cataloged as Hickson 56.

Comments

Revisions

    NGC 3718, Jared Willson
    Original
  • Final
    NGC 3718, Jared Willson
    B

B

Title: v2

Description: Slight change to brightness...

Uploaded: ...

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

NGC 3718, Jared Willson