NGC 1199
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 03 03 38.41
- Declination
- −15 ° 36 ′ 47.50 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2570 ± 5 km/s
- Distance
- 107 M ly
- Type
- E3:
- Apparent size v
- 2.4 x 1.9
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Distance from Earth
- 36.20
- Image
- NGC 1199-HST10787 45-R814G606B450.png
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- Commons category
- NGC 1199
- catalog code
- LEDA 11527
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-12-30
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.045400
- apparent magnitude
- 8.556
- galaxy morphological type
- E...
- right ascension
- 45.9099292
- declination
- -15.6135056
- radial velocity
- 2654
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1199 is an elliptical galaxy approximately 107 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Eridanus. It was discovered by William Herschel on December 30, 1785.
NGC 1199 is dominated by stellar light with little long wavelength emission.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1199” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.