Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 03h 24m 48s
- Declination
- -03° 02 ′ 31″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,783 km/s
- Distance
- 126 Mly (38.6 Mpc )
- Surface brightness
- 23.01 mag/arcsec2
- Type
- SAa
- Size
- 68,100 ly
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Distance from Earth
- 36.43
- Image
- NGC 1320 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3261073319580704128
- redshift
- 0.009060
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- Commons category
- NGC 1320
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-20
- apparent magnitude
- 9.359
- right ascension
- 51.20287654482230
- declination
- -3.04225589093710
- radial velocity
- 2686
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1320 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Eridanus. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 2,620 ± 15 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 38.6 ± 2.7 Mpc (~126 million ly). It was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1784.
The luminosity class of NGC 1320 is I and it is an active Seyfert 2 galaxy. NGC 1320 is a galaxy whose core shines in the ultraviolet region. It is listed in the Markarian catalog under the symbol Mrk 607 (MK 607).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1320” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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