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EntityQ1042818· pop 31· linked from 418 articles

spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
Sy1
Redshift
z = 0.0045836686444371555
Coordinates
RA 50.9849° · Dec -36.4645°
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Key facts

Constellation
Fornax
Right ascension
03 23 56.397
Declination
−36 ° 27 ′ 52.78 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1371 km/s
Distance
52 Mly (16 Mpc )
Type
(R 1 )SAB(r)0/a

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Fornax
Distance from Earth
18.8
Image
NGC 1326.jpg
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radial velocity
1362
Commons category
NGC 1326
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
catalog code
FCC 29
right ascension
50.9849875
galaxy morphological type
SBa
time of discovery or invention
1837-00-00
redshift
0.004537
apparent magnitude
7.454
declination
-36.4646611
epoch
J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1326 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Fornax, 63 million light-years away. It was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel on 29 November 1837. It is a member of the Fornax Cluster, an NGC 1316 subgroup and has a diameter of 70 000 light-years.

NGC 1326 is an early-type lenticular galaxy with a Hubble classification of S0, but it is very different from other early-type lenticulars in the Fornax Cluster. NGC 1326 has a nuclear ring.

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