NGC 1404
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 03 38 51.917
- Declination
- −35 ° 35 ′ 39.81 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1942 ± 48 km/s
- Distance
- 61 Mly (18.7 Mpc )
- Type
- E1
- Apparent size v
- 3.3 ′ × 3.0 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Distance from Earth
- 17.27
- Image
- NGC 1404SST.jpg
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- catalog code
- NVSS J033852-353540
- radial velocity
- 1994
- time of discovery or invention
- 1837-11-28
- galaxy morphological type
- E1
- redshift
- 0.006478
- Commons category
- NGC 1404
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 6.820
- right ascension
- 54.7163208
- declination
- -35.5943917
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1404 is an elliptical galaxy in the Southern constellation Eridanus. It was discovered on November 28, 1837, by the astronomer John Herschel. Based on the tip of the red-giant branch distance indicator, it lies at a distance of approximately 60 million light-years from the Milky Way. It is one of the brightest members of the Fornax Cluster.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1404” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.