Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.01398
- Coordinates
- RA 62.0788° · Dec -21.0520°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 4 04 18.9263
- Declination
- −21 ° 03 ′ 07.151 ″
- Redshift
- 0.014153 ± 0.000004
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4243 ± 12 km/s
- Type
- E3?
- Size
- ~470,700 ly (144.33 kpc ) (estimated)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Distance from Earth
- 56.1
- Image
- NGC 1521 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- APMBGC 550+073+058
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-11-21
- redshift
- 0.013980
- apparent magnitude
- 8.679
- right ascension
- 62.0789042
- declination
- -21.0519389
- radial velocity
- 4162
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 1521
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1521 (also known as PGC 14520) is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus. It was discovered on November 21, 1835, by John Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1521” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.