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NGC 1569
Sign in to savedwarf irregular galaxy in Camelopardalis
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- rG
- Redshift
- z = -0.0002734851609972333
- Morphology
- dIm
- Coordinates
- RA 67.7049° · Dec 64.8479°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Right ascension
- 4 30 49.1
- Declination
- +64 ° 50 ′ 53 ″
- Redshift
- -104 km/ s
- Distance
- 10.96 ± 0.65 Mly (3.36 ± 0.20 Mpc )
- Type
- IBm
- Size
- 15,750 ly (4.83 kpc )
- Apparent size v
- 3.6 ′ × 1.8 ′
- Notable features
- Contains two super star clusters
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dwarf irregular galaxy
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Distance from Earth
- 2.0
- Image
- NGC 1569.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 1569
- catalog code
- [NKB95] N1569
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-11-04
- redshift
- -0.000347
- apparent magnitude
- 7.858
- radial velocity
- -89
- galaxy morphological type
- dIm
- right ascension
- 67.7049417
- declination
- 64.8479222
- epoch
- J2000.0
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1569 is a dwarf irregular galaxy in Camelopardalis. The galaxy is relatively nearby, and consequently, the Hubble Space Telescope can easily resolve the stars within the galaxy. The distance to the galaxy was previously believed to be only 2.4 Mpc (7.8 Mly). However, in 2008 scientists studying images from Hubble calculated the galaxy's distance at nearly 11 million light-years away, about 4 million light-years farther than previously thought, meaning it is a member of the IC 342 group of galaxies.
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1569” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.