NGC 3949

NGC 3949 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 50 million light-years away from the Earth. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 5 February 1788.^[2]

NGC 3949
NGC 3949 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Ursa Major
Right ascension	11h 53m 41.7948s[1]
Declination	+47° 51′ 31.387″[1]
Redshift	800 ± 1 km/s[1]
Distance	48.6 ± 3.5 Mly (14.89 ± 1.06 Mpc)[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)	11.5[1]
Characteristics
Type	SA(s)bc[1]
Size	~47,800 ly (14.66 kpc) (estimated)
Apparent size (V)	2.9′ × 1.7′[1]
Other designations
HOLM 301A, IRAS 11510+4808, UGC 6869, MCG +08-22-029, PGC 37290, CGCG 243-025[1]

NGC 3949 is a member of the M109 Group, a group of galaxies located in the constellation Ursa Major that may contain over 50 galaxies. The brightest galaxy in the group is the spiral galaxy M109.^[3][4][5]

One supernova has been observed in NGC 3949: SN 2000db (type II, mag. 14.3) was discovered by Masakatsu Aoki on 6 August 2000.^[6][7]

See also

• List of NGC objects (3001–4000)