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NGC 1097
Sign in to savespiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax
Key facts
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Right ascension
- 02 46 19.0584
- Declination
- −30 ° 16 ′ 29.676 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,271 ± 3 km/s
- Distance
- 45 million ly
- Type
- SB(s)b
- Size
- ~220,500 ly (67.62 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 9.3′ × 6.3′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Distance from Earth
- 14
- Image
- NGC1097 - ESO - eso0438d.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 1255
- Commons category
- NGC 1097
- catalog code
- SUMSS J024619-301627
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-10-09
- redshift
- 0.004253
- galaxy morphological type
- SB(s)b
- apparent magnitude
- 6.252
- right ascension
- 41.5794125
- declination
- -30.2749111
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1097 (also known as Caldwell 67) is a barred spiral galaxy about 45 million light years away in the constellation Fornax. It was discovered by William Herschel on 9 October 1790. It is a severely interacting galaxy with obvious tidal debris and distortions caused by interaction with the companion galaxy NGC 1097A.
General information
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1097” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.