Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.0019064682909573083
- Coordinates
- RA 50.0289° · Dec -52.1855°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Horologium
- Right ascension
- 03 20 06.9
- Declination
- −52 ° 11 ′ 08 ″
- Redshift
- 0.001911 ± 0.000007
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 573 ± 2 km/ s
- Distance
- 4.932 ± 1.003 Mpc
- Type
- SBm
- Apparent size v
- 3.0′ × 0.8′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Horologium
- Distance from Earth
- 5.20
- Image
- NGC1311 - hst 10210R814GB606.png
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- catalog code
- APMBGC 200+095+123
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1837-12-24
- redshift
- 0.001905
- apparent magnitude
- 10.921
- galaxy morphological type
- S/Ir
- Commons category
- NGC 1311
- right ascension
- 50.0289417
- declination
- -52.1854889
- radial velocity
- 309
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1311 is a nearby late-type barred spiral galaxy, occasionally described as a dwarf irregular or emission-line galaxy, and a potential weak Seyfert 2 active galaxy candidate located in the Horologium constellation. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1837.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1311” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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