Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.0196702297912128
- Morphology
- Sb
- Coordinates
- RA 39.5794° · Dec 2.3100°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02h 38m 18s
- Declination
- +02° 18 ′ 36″
- Surface brightness
- 23.68 mag/arcsec2
- Type
- Sb
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 1009 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2502682842153828096
- discoverer or inventor
- Edward D. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-01-01
- Commons category
- NGC 1009
- right ascension
- 39.57936234225180
- declination
- 2.31003281804230
- apparent magnitude
- 11.173
- radial velocity
- 5820
- redshift
- 0.019604
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1009 is a large spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 5,594 ± 24 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 82.5 ± 5.8 Mpc (~269 million ly). NGC 1009 was discovered by American astronomer Edward Swift in 1886. The luminosity class of NGC 1009 is II and it has a broad HI line. To date, five non-redshift measurements yield a distance of 91.940 ± 3.045 Mpc (~300 million ly), which is just outside the distance values of Hubble.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1009” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.