NGC 3678

NGC 3678 is a spiral galaxy located around 361 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.^[1][2] NGC 3678 was discovered on April 13th, 1831 by the astronomer John Herschel, and its diameter is 127,000 light-years across.^[1] NGC 3678 is not know to have much star-formation, and it is not know to have an active galactic nucleus.^[3][4]

NGC 3678
A Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) image of NGC 3678
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Leo
Right ascension	11h 26m 15.70s[1]
Declination	+27° 52′ 01.00″[1]
Redshift	0.02404±0.00001[1]
Distance	361 Mly (110.75 Mpc)[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)	13.5[1]
Characteristics
Type	Sbc[1]
Size	127,000 ly
Apparent size (V)	0.724′ × 0.692′[1]
Notable features	N/A
Other designations
PGC 35177,[1] UGC 6443,[1] Z 156-75,[1] LEDA 35177,[1] MCG +05-27-071[1]