[1][2] It contains extensive Hubble-type Sb star-forming regions, and is located south of the celestial equator.

[3] It is estimated to be 218 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 100,000 ly.

Together with PGC 29184 it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair.

Finally, the American astronomer Ormond Stone also observed this galaxy on December 31, 1885, and this observation was entered in the NGC catalogue under the designation NGC 3518.

[6] NGC 3110 has a broad HI line and is a bright infrared galaxy (LIRG).