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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 1279 is referenced by 473 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1001–2000), epoch and NGC 1974.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1876, Lenticular galaxies and NGC objects.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.02401
- Morphology
- S0a
- Coordinates
- RA 49.9961° · Dec 41.4796°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 3 19 59.1
- Declination
- 41 ° 28 ′ 46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7285 km/s
- Distance
- 317 Mly (97.1 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Perseus Cluster
- Type
- S/S0?
- Size
- ~113,400 ly (34.77 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.587 x 0.329
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
Show 11 more facts
- discoverer or inventor
- John Louis Emil Dreyer
- catalog code
- [BM99] 289
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-12-12
- apparent magnitude
- 10.720
- galaxy morphological type
- S/S0...
- Commons category
- NGC 1279
- redshift
- 0.024300
- right ascension
- 49.9961375
- declination
- 41.4795278
- radial velocity
- 7285
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1279 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be 324 million light-years away from the Milky Way in the constellation Perseus. It has diameter of about 110,000 ly, and is a member of the Perseus Cluster.
It was discovered on December 12, 1876, by astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1279” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.