Key facts
- Constellation
- Orion
- Right ascension
- 04 52 17.639
- Declination
- −03 ° 01 ′ 27.96 ″
- Redshift
- 3941 km/s
- Distance
- 175.1 Mly (53.69 Mpc )
- Type
- Sa? pec sp
- Apparent size v
- 1.2′ × 0.4′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Orion
- Distance from Earth
- 53.69
- Image
- NGC 1683 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 16209
- radial velocity
- 3941
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1850-01-00
- apparent magnitude
- 10.834
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- right ascension
- 73.0734958
- declination
- -3.0244333
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 1683
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1683 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Orion. The object was discovered in 1850 by the Irish astronomer William Parsons.
NGC 1682 to NGC 1685 with the legacy surveys. NGC 1683 is the small edge-on galaxy near the middle-right of the image.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1683” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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