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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

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.