NGC 1566
Sign in to saveAlso known as New General Catalogue 1566, NGC 1569
spiral galaxy in the constellation Doradus
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 472 inbound references to NGC 1566, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1001–2000), list of most luminous stars and light-year.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1826, Discoveries by James Dunlop and Dorado.
Vinony links it to 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Right ascension
- 04 20 00.40200
- Declination
- −54 ° 56 ′ 16.5781 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,506.1 km/s
- Distance
- 69 Mly (21.3 Mpc )
- Apparent magnitude v
- 9.73 ± 0.03
- Type
- SAB(rs)bc
- Mass
- 6.5 × 10 M ☉
- Size
- 118,175 ly (36.25 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 8′.51 × 5′.37
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Distance from Earth
- 20.7
- Image
- NGC1566 - Noirlab2208a.jpg
Show 14 more facts
- Commons category
- NGC 1566
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4779165759875235200
- redshift
- 0.0043
- galaxy morphological type
- SABbc
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-05-28
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- right ascension
- 65.00167500377300
- apparent magnitude
- 6.886
- declination
- -54.93793836226130
- parallax
- 1.1123
- radial velocity
- 1487
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.855
- declination component of proper motion
- -2.109
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1566, sometimes known as the Spanish Dancer, is an intermediate spiral galaxy located around 69 million light years away in the constellation of Dorado. The exact distance of this galaxy remains elusive with measurements ranging from 6 Mpc up to 21 Mpc.
It was discovered on May 28, 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. At 10th magnitude, it requires a telescope to view.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1566” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.