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It sits within the topics Columba (constellation), ESO objects and Flocculent spiral galaxies.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Columba
- Right ascension
- 05 05 14.454
- Declination
- −37 ° 58 ′ 50.70 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,208
- Distance
- 36.4 Mly (11.17 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 1808
- Type
- SA(rs)bc
- Mass
- 0.54 × 10 M ☉
- Mass light ratio
- 3.4 M ☉ / L ☉
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Columba
- Distance from Earth
- 10
- Image
- A storm of new stars (potw2548a).jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- catalog code
- SUMSS J050513-375847
- Commons category
- NGC 1792
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-10-04
- redshift
- 0.004039
- apparent magnitude
- 7.010
- right ascension
- 76.3102250
- declination
- -37.9807500
- radial velocity
- 1212
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1792 is a spiral galaxy located in the southern Columba constellation. It was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on October 4, 1826. This galaxy is located at a distance of about 36.4 million light-years and is receding from the Milky Way with a heliocentric radial velocity of 1,208 km/s. NGC 1792 is a member of the NGC 1808 cluster of galaxies.
The morphological classification of this galaxy in the de Vaucouleurs system is SA(rs)bc, indicating a spiral galaxy with no central bar (SA), moderately wound arms (bc), and an incomplete ring structure. However, the HyperLEDA classification of SBbc suggests it does have a bar. It has a flocculent appearance with no central bulge. In the B-band, the angular extend of the galaxy spans 7′.5 × 3′.1. The plane of the galaxy is inclined at an angle of 66° to the line of sight from the Earth, with the major axis being aligned along a position angle of 317°.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1792” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.