NGC 1531
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 04 11 59.3
- Declination
- −32 ° 51 ′ 03 ″
- Redshift
- 1169 ± 29 km/ s
- Distance
- 42.4 million light-years
- Type
- S0 pec
- Size
- 59,200 ly (18.16 kpc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.3 ′ × 0.9 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Distance from Earth
- 15.46
- Image
- ESO - Ngc1532 gendler (by).jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- Commons category
- NGC 1531
- catalog code
- LEDA 14635
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-10-19
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- apparent magnitude
- 8.421
- right ascension
- 62.9972042
- declination
- -32.8507917
- redshift
- 0.003899
- radial velocity
- 1157
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1531 is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Eridanus that is interacting with the larger spiral galaxy NGC 1532. It was discovered by John Herschel on 19 October 1835. Although technically classified as a peculiar lenticular galaxy, the galaxy's structure is better described as amorphous.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1531” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.