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NGC 1701

galaxy

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It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1834, Caelum and Discoveries by John Herschel.

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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type: AG?
Distance: 3,345 light-years
Redshift: z = 0.019564756578674514
Coordinates: RA 73.9631° · Dec -29.8835°

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Key facts

Constellation: Caelum
Right ascension: 04 55 51.1486
Declination: −29 ° 53 ′ 00.980 ″
Redshift: 0.019 467 ± 0.000 0800
Heliocentric radial velocity: 5,836 ± 24 km/s
Distance: 280.8 ± 19.7 Mly (86.08 ± 6.05 Mpc )
Surface brightness: 22.65 mag/arcsec
Type: (R)SA(r)b
Size: ~170,500 ly (52.28 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v: 1.2′ × 0.9′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: spiral galaxy
Constellation: Caelum
Image: NGC 1701 legacy dr10.jpg

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epoch: J2000.0
catalog code: Gaia DR2 4876614964344897792
Commons category: NGC 1701
galaxy morphological type: Sa
time of discovery or invention: 1834-11-06
discoverer or inventor: John Frederick William Herschel
apparent magnitude: 9.888
right ascension: 73.96314632918160
declination: -29.88355077719010
radial velocity: 5808
redshift: 0.019373

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1701, also known as the Trekkie Galaxy, is a large unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Caelum. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 5,836 ± 24 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 86.1 ± 6.0 Mpc (~281 million ly). It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 6 November 1834.

The luminosity class of NGC 1701 is II and it has a broad HI line.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1701” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.