M 96

M96 is the brightest member of the Leo I group of galaxies, which is therefore also called the M96 group. Its distance was determined to be about 38 million light years by Nial R. Tanvir with the Hubble Space Telescope by observing Cepheid variables.

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Right ascension	10 : 44.2 (hours : minutes)
Declination	+12 : 05 (degrees : minutes)
Distance	25000.0 (light-years*10^3)
Visual magnitude	9.1