NGC 3245 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on April 11, 1785. The galaxy has an apparent visual magnitude of 10.7 and spans an angular size of . It is located at a distance of . The morphological classification of NGC 3245 is SA(r)0^0^, which is consistent with a lenticular galaxy (SA0) possessing a ring-like structure (r).
There is a circumnuclear dust with a radius of , which corresponds to a radius of . The rotational motion of this disk is consistent with a supermassive black hole at the core with a mass of , or 210 million times the mass of the Sun.
This is a member of the NGC 3254 Group of galaxies, which is a member of the Leo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the right edge of the Virgo Supercluster.
See also List of NGC objects (3001–4000)
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