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galaxy in the Fornax Cluster

Key facts

Constellation
Fornax
Right ascension
03 27.6
Declination
−37 ° 8 ′
Redshift
1854 km/s
Distance
26.4 Mpc (86.1 Mly)
Type
SBab
Apparent size v
1.2 ′ × 1.1 ′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Fornax
Distance from Earth
24.91
Image
NGC 1341.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 4854505366056501888
Commons category
NGC 1341
time of discovery or invention
1837-00-00
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
apparent magnitude
9.841
galaxy morphological type
SB:b:
right ascension
51.99332435421200
declination
-37.15008356573500
redshift
0.006221
radial velocity
1884
epoch
J2000.0
right ascension component of proper motion
0.496
declination component of proper motion
2.641

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1341 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax, 86 million light years away. It is one of the most distant members of the Fornax Cluster. Discovered by John Herschel on November 29, 1837, it is 30,000 light years in diameter and has a redshift of 1854 km/s.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1341” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.