Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Distance
- 3,345 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.019564756578674514
- Coordinates
- RA 73.9631° · Dec -29.8835°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Caelum
- Right ascension
- 04 55 51.1486
- Declination
- −29 ° 53 ′ 00.980 ″
- Redshift
- 0.019 467 ± 0.000 0800
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,836 ± 24 km/s
- Distance
- 280.8 ± 19.7 Mly (86.08 ± 6.05 Mpc )
- Surface brightness
- 22.65 mag/arcsec
- Type
- (R)SA(r)b
- Size
- ~170,500 ly (52.28 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.2′ × 0.9′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1701, also known as the Trekkie Galaxy, is a large unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Caelum. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 5,836 ± 24 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 86.1 ± 6.0 Mpc (~281 million ly). It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 6 November 1834.
The luminosity class of NGC 1701 is II and it has a broad HI line.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1701” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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