NGC 3794

NGC 3794, also cataloged in the New General Catalogue as NGC 3804, is a low-surface-brightness galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is very far from Earth, with a distance of about 68,470,000 light-years (20,990,000 pc). It was discovered on April 14, 1789, by the astronomer William Herschel.^[4]

NGC 3794
An image of NGC 3794 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Ursa Major
Right ascension	11h 40m 53.42s[1]
Declination	+56° 12′ 07.3″[1]
Redshift	0.00462[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	1385 km/s[1]
Distance	68.5 Mly (20.99 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)	13.01[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.89[3]
Characteristics
Type	SAB(s)d[1]
Other designations
NGC 3804, UGC 6640, MCG +09-19-153, PGC 36238[2]