Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 03 01 13.20
- Declination
- +44 ° 57 ′ 20.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2528 ± 5 km/s
- Distance
- 116 M ly
- Type
- Scd
- Apparent size v
- 1.9 x 0.9
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Distance from Earth
- 24.89
- Image
- NGC 1160 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 11403
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-10-07
- redshift
- 0.008319
- galaxy morphological type
- SBc
- apparent magnitude
- 9.884
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 1160
- right ascension
- 45.3052458
- declination
- 44.9554222
- radial velocity
- 2528
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1160 is a spiral galaxy approximately 116 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Perseus. It was discovered, along with NGC 1161, by English astronomer William Herschel on October 7, 1784.
NGC 1160 forms a visual pair with the galaxy NGC 1161. Both galaxies are located between the Local and Perseus superclusters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1160” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.