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Q496348
Sign in to savespiral galaxy in the constellation Perseus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 03 17 27.2
- Declination
- +41 ° 24 ′ 19 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5753 ± 14 km/s
- Distance
- 250 ± 1.6 M ly , (76.7 ± 0.5 M pc )
- Type
- S0/a
- Apparent size v
- 1.1 ′ × 0.5 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 75.00
- Image
- SN2006gy.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 239373237671443328
- Commons category
- NGC 1260
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-10-19
- redshift
- 0.018783
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a
- apparent magnitude
- 12.191
- right ascension
- 49.36345570181100
- declination
- 41.40513625500940
- radial velocity
- 5631
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NGC 1260 is a spiral or lenticular galaxy located 250 million light years away from earth in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on 19 October 1884. NGC 1260 is a member of the Perseus Cluster and forms a tight pair with the galaxy PGC 12230. This galaxy is dominated by a population of many old stars.
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