Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 5,043 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.0227
- Morphology
- S0a
- Coordinates
- RA 50.4165° · Dec 41.3606°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 03 21 39.9
- Declination
- 41 ° 21 ′ 38 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6585 km/s
- Distance
- 286 Mly (87.7 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Perseus Cluster
- Type
- SA0^-?
- Size
- ~136,000 ly (41.8 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.3 x 1.1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Distance from Earth
- 89.35
- Image
- NGC 1294 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 236423385413331328
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-10-17
- apparent magnitude
- 9.491
- galaxy morphological type
- S0:
- redshift
- 0.021882
- Commons category
- NGC 1294
- right ascension
- 50.41654252923990
- declination
- 41.36056308356770
- radial velocity
- 6560
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1294 is a lenticular galaxy located about 285 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on October 17, 1786 and is a member of the Perseus Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1294” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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