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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- SyG
- Distance
- 101,291 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.0046
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 40.0999° · Dec -8.4335°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02 40 24.0
- Declination
- −08 ° 26 ′ 01 ″
- Redshift
- 0.004573 ± 0.000007
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,371 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 55.5 Mly (17.02 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 1052 group
- Type
- SAB(rs)cd
- Size
- 39,200 ly
- Apparent size v
- 2.3 ′ × 1.0 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1042 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on 10 November 1885 by American astronomer Lewis Swift. The galaxy has an apparent magnitude of 14.0.
NGC 1042 is a low-luminosity active galaxy. Furthermore, its luminosity class is III–IV and it has a broad HI line. It is known that NGC 1042 also hosts an intermediate-mass black hole in its center.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q695514” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.