Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 03 08 26.2
- Declination
- +04 ° 06 ′ 39.3 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8,485 ± 15 km/s
- Galactocentric velocity
- 8,488 ± 15 km/s
- Distance
- 378,600,000 ly (116.08 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- [CHM 2007] LDC 223
- Surface brightness
- 1.19 × 10
- Type
- S0/a
- Size
- 225,400 ly (69.11 kpc) , (diameter)
- Apparent size v
- 1.147′ × 0.917′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 116.08
- Image
- NGC 1218 DSS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 1218
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- 3FGL J0308.6+0408
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-09-06
- redshift
- 0.0288
- apparent magnitude
- 9.066
- right ascension
- 47.109265845000
- declination
- 4.110916891972
- parallax
- 0.3472
- radial velocity
- 8519
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.670
- declination component of proper motion
- 0.346
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1218 is a lenticular galaxy in Cetus that hosts the radio source 3C 78. It was discovered in 1886 by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift. It is located at l = 174.86, b = -44.51 in the galactic coordinate system.
History
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