The sky around NGC 3513, 3° across, north up low-power eyepiece, 1° NE 1°
The sky around NGC 3513 at true scale, north up and east left, with stars to magnitude 8. The circles show the field of a low-power eyepiece and of 10×50 binoculars.

UGCA 224 · ESO 502-014 · PGC 33410

NGC 3513

Barred spiral galaxy (SBc) in Crater

Barred spiral galaxy (SBc) in Crater, 39 million light-years away.

CRATER

The box shows where NGC 3513 sits in Crater.

Constellation
CraterCrt
Magnitude
11.7visual
Size
2.8′ × 1.3′about 32,200 light-years
Distance
39 million lylight-years
Best month
Aprilat 9 pm
Best with
Telescope

NGC 3513 is a barred spiral galaxy (SBc) in Crater, 39 million light-years away

NGC 3513 (UGCA 224, ESO 502-014, PGC 33410) is a barred spiral galaxy (SBc) in the constellation Crater, 39 million light-years away. It shines at magnitude 11.7 and spans 2.8′ × 1.3′ of sky, about 32,200 light-years across. It is a telescope object, 6 inches or larger, and it is highest in the evening sky in April.

Galaxy: a system of billions of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity, far outside the Milky Way. Spiral galaxies have a disk with arms; elliptical galaxies are smooth, round or oval swarms of older stars.

NGC 3513 is AM 1101-225 in the Arp-Madore catalog

Halton Arp and Barry Madore listed it in A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations (1987), from their search of the UK Schmidt southern sky survey plates. The number 1101-225 is its position: right ascension 11h 01m and declination -22.5°.

Finding NGC 3513 from ν Hya

ν Hya NGC 3513 CRATER

NGC 3513 lies 7.8° southeast of ν Hya, the magnitude 3.1 star. Three fingers held at arm's length cover about 5°.

NGC 3513 is highest in the evening in April

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The chart gives its height above the horizon at 9 pm through the year, from 60°N to 40°S. It can be seen from the whole southern hemisphere and north to about 67°N, and never sets south of 67°S.

NGC 3513 is 39 million light-years away

The light seen from NGC 3513 tonight left it about 39 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. It ranks 90 of 422 by distance among the galaxies on Go Astronomy. Distance source: Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023), Tully-Fisher distance of its pair companion NGC 3511.

Objects within 6° of NGC 3513

No other Messier, Caldwell or Herschel 400 object lies within 6°.

NGC 3513 catalog data

FieldValue
DesignationsUGCA 224, ESO 502-014, PGC 33410, NGC 3513, AM 1101-225
Typebarred spiral galaxy (SBc)
ConstellationCrater
Right ascension (J2000)11h 03.8m
Declination (J2000)-23° 15′
Magnitude11.7
Surface brightness22.3 mag/arcmin²
Apparent size2.8′ × 1.3′
True size32,200 light-years
Distance39 million light-years (Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023), Tully-Fisher distance of its pair companion NGC 3511)
Best monthApril
Best withTelescope