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barred 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.