Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 03 01 14.10
- Declination
- +44 ° 53 ′ 50.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1954 ± 23 km/s
- Distance
- 90 M ly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 2.8 x 2.0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Image
- NGC 1161 - 2MASS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 11404
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 1161
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-10-07
- redshift
- 0.006518
- apparent magnitude
- 13.20
- right ascension
- 45.308667
- declination
- 44.897389
- radial velocity
- 1940
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1161 is a lenticular galaxy approximately 90 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Perseus. It was discovered, along with NGC 1160, by English astronomer William Herschel on October 7, 1784.
NGC 1161 is classified as a Type 1.9 Seyfert galaxy. It forms a visual pair with the galaxy NGC 1160. Both galaxies are located between the Local and Perseus superclusters in the Perseus Cloud close to the centre of the Local Void.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1161” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.