menu
A Complete Guide to the Solar System and the Night Sky
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
Timezone: Europe/London
Sunrise: 5:52 
Transit: 12:58 
Sunset: 20:05
warning Set your observing location to get relevant data
sleep   (Nighttime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close

Other deep sky objects in Leo
All Constellations »  Leo »  Deep Sky Objects » 

NGC 3563 - Galaxy Pair in Leo

Above the horizon.  Rise: 13:37 | Tran: 22:12 | Set: 6:50
Alt: 64.63°   Az: 196.59°   Direction: South-South-West

NGC 3563 is a Galaxy Pair in the Leo constellation. NGC 3563 is situated north of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the northern hemisphere.

The image below is a photograph of NGC 3563 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5000x0.5000 degrees (30.00x30.00 arcmins).

Image of NGC 3563 - Galaxy Pair in Leo star
/>
DSS2 image of NGC 3563 in the Red band. The green region on the image is a representation of the major (1.4 arcmin) and minor (1.4 arcmin) axes of the object's apparent size.

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

11h 12m 46s
+26° 49’ 28”
00h 31m 30s
11h 44m 17s

J2000

11h 11m 25s
+26° 57’ 44”

Finder Chart

The simplified sky charts below show the position of NGC 3563 in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for NGC 3563 - Galaxy Pair in Leo.

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for NGC 3563 - Galaxy Pair in Leo.

Apparent Size

The following table reports NGC 3563 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of NGC 3563 is a visual representation of it.
1.4 arcmin
1.4 arcmin

Rise and Set Times

Location: Greenwich, UK
Latitude: 51° 28’ 47” N
Longitude: 0° 00’ 00” E
Timezone: Europe/London

Today's NGC 3563 - Galaxy Pair in Leo rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 63.2°
Max altitude: 65.3°
Azimuth: 296.8°