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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
Sy2
Redshift
z = 0.0019064682909573083
Coordinates
RA 50.0289° · Dec -52.1855°
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Key facts

Constellation
Horologium
Right ascension
03 20 06.9
Declination
−52 ° 11 ′ 08 ″
Redshift
0.001911 ± 0.000007
Heliocentric radial velocity
573 ± 2 km/ s
Distance
4.932 ± 1.003 Mpc
Type
SBm
Apparent size v
3.0′ × 0.8′

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1311 is a nearby late-type barred spiral galaxy, occasionally described as a dwarf irregular or emission-line galaxy, and a potential weak Seyfert 2 active galaxy candidate located in the Horologium constellation. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1837.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1311” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.