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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Perseus
Right ascension
03 20 12.1
Declination
41 ° 22 ′ 01 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
2,139 km/s
Distance
230 Mly (70 Mpc )
Group or cluster
Perseus Cluster
Type
E
Size
~115,000 ly (35.3 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.4 x 1.1

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Perseus
Distance from Earth
52.48
Image
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catalog code
[BM99] 307
redshift
0.007312
galaxy morphological type
E
Commons category
NGC 1282
discoverer or inventor
Guillaume Bigourdan
time of discovery or invention
1884-10-23
apparent magnitude
11.929
right ascension
50.0505875
declination
41.3670278
radial velocity
2192
epoch
J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1282 is an elliptical galaxy located about 230 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on October 23, 1884. NGC 1282 is a member of the Perseus Cluster.

A Type Ia supernova designated as SN 2008fh was detected near NGC 1282 on either July 30, or August 30, 2008. However, the supernova was not associated with the galaxy.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1282” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.