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galaxy

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
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.