Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.02401
- Morphology
- S0a
- Coordinates
- RA 49.9961° · Dec 41.4796°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 3 19 59.1
- Declination
- 41 ° 28 ′ 46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7285 km/s
- Distance
- 317 Mly (97.1 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Perseus Cluster
- Type
- S/S0?
- Size
- ~113,400 ly (34.77 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.587 x 0.329
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Wikidata facts
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Louis Emil Dreyer
- catalog code
- [BM99] 289
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-12-12
- apparent magnitude
- 10.720
- galaxy morphological type
- S/S0...
- Commons category
- NGC 1279
- redshift
- 0.024300
- right ascension
- 49.9961375
- declination
- 41.4795278
- radial velocity
- 7285
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1279 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be 324 million light-years away from the Milky Way in the constellation Perseus. It has diameter of about 110,000 ly, and is a member of the Perseus Cluster.
It was discovered on December 12, 1876, by astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q571080” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.