Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 03 17 59.6
- Declination
- 41 ° 31 ′ 13 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3246 km/s
- Distance
- 146 Mly (44.7 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Perseus Cluster
- Type
- SBab
- Size
- ~50,300 ly (15.41 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.2 x 1.1
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1264 is a low-surface-brightness barred spiral galaxy located about 145 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on October 19, 1884. NGC 1264 is a member of the Perseus Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1264” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.