Q1042818
Sign in to savespiral 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
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- 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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