NGC 1291
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ring galaxy in the constellation Eridanus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 03 15 29.6
- Declination
- −41 ° 17 ′ 25.6 ″
- Redshift
- 0.002799 (839 ± 2 km/ s )
- Distance
- 33 Mly
- Absolute magnitude v
- −21.05
- Type
- (R_1)SB(l)0/a
- Apparent size v
- 9′.8 × 8′.1
- Notable features
- inner bar and outer ring structure
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Distance from Earth
- 8.6
- Image
- The Cosmic Steering Wheel NGC 1269 (iotw2608a).jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- Commons category
- NGC 1291
- catalog code
- [VDD93] 25
- radial velocity
- 791
- apparent magnitude
- 5.658
- galaxy morphological type
- SBa
- right ascension
- 49.3275000
- declination
- -41.1080694
- redshift
- 0.002795
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1291, also known as NGC 1269, is a ring galaxy with an unusual inner bar and outer ring structure located about 33 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826 and subsequently entered into the New General Catalogue as NGC 1291 by Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer. John Herschel then observed the same object in 1836 and entered it into the catalog as NGC 1269 without realizing that it was a duplicate. This galaxy was cited as an example of a "transitional galaxy" by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer team in 2007.
Properties
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1291” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.