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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Fornax
Right ascension
03 06 45.35112
Declination
−25 ° 42 ′ 58.8437 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3944 km/s
Distance
179.2 ± 12.6 Mly (54.94 ± 3.85 Mpc )
Absolute magnitude v
− 21.07
Type
(R')SB0 (rs) pec

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Fornax
Image
NGC 1210 DSS.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
S0a
epoch
J2000.0
catalog code
Gaia DR2 5073689710520104960
discoverer or inventor
Ormond Stone
time of discovery or invention
1885-11-13
redshift
0.013102
apparent magnitude
10.084
right ascension
46.68896302017330
declination
-25.71634546289830
radial velocity
3944
Commons category
NGC 1210
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1210 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Fornax, about 179 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Ormond Stone in 1885.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1210” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.