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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Perseus
Right ascension
03 20 15.5
Declination
41 ° 23 ′ 55 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
6727 km/s
Distance
250 Mly (76.6 Mpc )
Group or cluster
Perseus Cluster
Type
E1
Size
~90,000 ly (27.5 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
0.7 x 0.6

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1283 is an elliptical galaxy located about 250 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on October 23, 1884 and is a member of the Perseus Cluster. It also contains an active galactic nucleus.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1283” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.