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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiC
Redshift
z = 0.01488
Morphology
SO
Coordinates
RA 77.9423° · Dec 5.2006°
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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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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Orion
Distance from Earth
60.53
Image
NGC 1819 DSS.jpg
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redshift
0.014880
catalog code
LEDA 16899
discoverer or inventor
Lewis A. Swift
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
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 1819
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1819” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.