Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 03 20 06.1
- Declination
- 41 ° 37 ′ 48 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4300 km/s
- Distance
- 195.7 ± 3.3 Mly (60 ± 1 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Perseus Cluster
- Type
- E5
- Mass light ratio
- 1.7 M ☉ / L ☉
- Size
- ~17,000 ly (5.2 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.0 x 0.7
- Half light radius physical
- ~4,200 ly (1.3 kpc ) (estimated)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1281 is a compact elliptical galaxy located about 200 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. NGC 1281 was discovered by astronomer John Dreyer on December 12, 1876. It is a member of the Perseus Cluster.
Like NGC 1277 and NGC 1271, NGC 1281 is a candidate "relic galaxy".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q748398” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.