NGC 1340
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.003949
- Morphology
- E5
- Coordinates
- RA 52.0818° · Dec -31.0682°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Right ascension
- 03h 28m 20s
- Declination
- -31° 04 ′ 05″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (+1169 ± 15) km/s
- Distance
- 54.2 Mly (16.61 Mpc )
- Type
- E5
- Size
- 145,000 ly (estimated)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Distance from Earth
- 15.15
- Image
- NGC 1344.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 12923
- galaxy morphological type
- E5
- Commons category
- NGC 1340
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 7.399
- right ascension
- 52.0819500
- declination
- -31.0681806
- radial velocity
- 1182
- redshift
- 0.003949
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1340 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Fornax. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 1,126 ± 17 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble Distance of 16.6 ± 1.2 Mpc (~54.1 million ly). It was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1790, but it was added to the New General Catalog under the designation NGC 1344 later.
This galaxy was later observed by the British astronomer John Herschel on November 19, 1835, and it is this observation that was added to the New General Catalog under the designation NGC 1340.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1340” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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