Key facts
- Constellation
- Reticulum
- Right ascension
- 03 18 15.4
- Declination
- −66 ° 29 ′ 50 ″
- Distance
- 12.886 Mly
- Type
- SB(s)d
- Apparent size v
- 9.1 x 7.1 arcmin
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 4.2
- Diameter
- 50000
- Image
- Phot-43a-06.jpg
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- catalog code
- PKS 0317-666
- Commons category
- NGC 1313
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-09-27
- redshift
- 0.001584
- apparent magnitude
- 7.568
- galaxy morphological type
- SB(s)d
- right ascension
- 49.5668583
- declination
- -66.4982611
- radial velocity
- 452
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NGC 1313 (also known as the Topsy Turvy Galaxy) is a field galaxy and an irregular galaxy discovered by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on 27 September 1826. It has a diameter of about 50,000 light-years, or about half the size of the Milky Way.
NGC 1313 lies within the Virgo Supercluster.
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