Key facts
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Right ascension
- 03 37 28.9794
- Declination
- −24 ° 29 ′ 59.976 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1497 ± 4 km/s
- Distance
- 52.18 ± 7.22 Mly (15.999 ± 2.215 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 1395 Group (LGG 97)
- Type
- SB(s)cd
- Size
- ~94,000 ly (28.82 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.4′ × 2.0′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Distance from Earth
- 10
- Image
- NGC1385 - HST - Potw2133a.jpg
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- catalog code
- [NKB95] N1385
- Commons category
- NGC 1385
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-11-17
- redshift
- 0.004980
- apparent magnitude
- 8.568
- galaxy morphological type
- SBc
- right ascension
- 54.3680125
- declination
- -24.5012778
- radial velocity
- 1502
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1385 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Fornax. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1381 ± 9 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 66.4 ± 4.7 Mly (20.37 ± 1.43 Mpc). However, 30 non redshift measurements give a closer distance of 52.18 ± 7.22 Mly (15.999 ± 2.215 Mpc). The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 17 November 1784.
In 2024, NGC 1385 was imaged by James Webb Space Telescope as part of Physics at High Angular Project resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) project, studying phases of star formations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1385” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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