Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiC
- Redshift
- z = 0.01488
- Morphology
- SO
- Coordinates
- RA 77.9423° · Dec 5.2006°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- 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.
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