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Q1045487

galaxy

Key facts

Constellation: Orion
Right ascension: 05 11 46.150
Declination: +05 ° 12 ′ 02.21 ″
Redshift: 0.014880 ± 0.000047
Heliocentric radial velocity: 4,483 km/s
Distance: 197.4 Mly (60.53 Mpc )
Surface brightness: 23.34 mag/arcsec2
Type: SB0

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Distance from Earth: 60.53
Image: NGC 1819 DSS.jpg

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redshift: 0.014880
catalog code: LEDA 16899
time of discovery or invention: 1885-12-26
apparent magnitude: 9.227
galaxy morphological type: SB0
right ascension: 77.9422917
declination: 5.2006139
radial velocity: 4428
Commons category: NGC 1819

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NGC 1819 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Orion. It was discovered on December 26, 1885, by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift. This galaxy is located at a distance of 197.4 million light-years (60.53 Mpc) from the Milky Way, and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 4,483 km/s.

The morphological classification of NGC 1819 is SB0 in the De Vaucouleurs system, indicating this is a lenticular galaxy with a barred spiral organization. It is a gas-rich galaxy with a circumnuclear ring structure that is undergoing intense star formation.