NGC 1052
Sign in to saveelliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 02 41 04.79851
- Declination
- −08 ° 15 ′ 20.7517 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1474 ± 26 km/s
- Distance
- 62.0 Mly (19.00 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 1052 Group
- Type
- E4
- Apparent size v
- 3.0 ′ × 2.1 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Has part
- NGC 1042
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 19.6
- Image
- NGC 1052 SDSS.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- catalog code
- QSO J0241-0815
- Commons category
- NGC 1052
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-01-10
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- apparent magnitude
- 7.451
- right ascension
- 40.269993792
- declination
- -8.255764361
- radial velocity
- 1536
- redshift
- 0.004930
- epoch
- J2000.0
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1052 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on January 10, 1785 by the astronomer William Herschel. It is a member of the eponymous NGC 1052 Group.
Features
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1052” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.