NGC 1234
Sign in to savebarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Redshift
- z = 0.01251355798185938
- Morphology
- SA_B
- Coordinates
- RA 47.4125° · Dec -7.8454°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 3 9 39.1
- Declination
- −7 ° 50 ′ 47 ″
- Redshift
- 3731 ± 3 km/ s
- Type
- SB(r)cd pec
- Apparent size v
- 1 ′ 24 × 0.63 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Image
- NGC1234 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- SDSS J030939.07-075046.2
- Commons category
- NGC 1234
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- apparent magnitude
- 13.880
- galaxy morphological type
- 5
- right ascension
- 47.4125000
- declination
- -7.8453861
- redshift
- 0.01255
- radial velocity
- 3728.0
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1234 is a peculiar barred spiral galaxy exhibiting a ring structure in the constellation Eridanus, discovered by Francis Preserved Leavenworth in 1886.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1234” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.