Key facts
- Constellation
- Horologium
- Right ascension
- 04 08 24.1044
- Declination
- −47 ° 53 ′ 48.811 ″
- Redshift
- 0.004 043 ± 0.000 0570
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,212 ± 17 km/s
- Distance
- 55.87 ± 3.62 Mly (17.130 ± 1.111 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- [CHM2007] HDC 257
- Type
- SA(r)0^0
- Size
- ~96,100 ly (29.47 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.7′ × 1.4′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Horologium
- Distance from Earth
- 15.64
- Image
- NGC 1527 legacy dr10.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4831022851409729408
- Commons category
- NGC 1527
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-09-28
- redshift
- 0.003916
- apparent magnitude
- 7.630
- galaxy morphological type
- S0:r
- right ascension
- 62.10037494026940
- declination
- -47.89693589708100
- radial velocity
- 1087
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1527 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Horologium. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1,178±17 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 56.7 ± 4.1 Mly (17.37 ± 1.27 Mpc). Additionally, 10 non-redshift measurements give a mean distance of 55.87 ± 3.62 Mly (17.130 ± 1.111 Mpc). It was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on 28 September 1826.
NGC 1527 has a possible active galactic nucleus, i.e. it has a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1527” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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