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barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
EmG
Redshift
z = 0.005358721677222844
Coordinates
RA 51.1066° · Dec -21.5441°
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Key facts

Constellation
Eridanus
Right ascension
03 25.576
Declination
−21 ° 32 ′ 38.61 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1,588
Distance
75.0 Mly (23.01 Mpc ) h , 0.73
Group or cluster
Eridanus Cluster
Type
SBbc
Apparent size v
4.47 ′ × 1.66 ′
Notable features
Flocculent spiral galaxy

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Eridanus
Distance from Earth
19
Image
NGC 1325 DSS.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 12737
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
galaxy morphological type
Sb
Commons category
NGC 1325
time of discovery or invention
1798-00-00
redshift
0.005300
apparent magnitude
8.627
right ascension
51.10656800397020
declination
-21.54405749430540
radial velocity
1596
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1325 is a flocculent spiral galaxy situated in the constellation of Eridanus. Located about 75 million light years away, it is a member of the Eridanus Cluster of galaxies, a cluster of about 200 galaxies. It was discovered by William Herschel on 19 December 1799.

NGC 1325 has a Hubble classification of SBbc, which indicates it is a barred spiral galaxy with moderately wound arms. Its angular size on the night sky is 4.5' x 1.7'. The disk of the galaxy is inclined at an angle of 71° with the main axis aligned along a position angle of 232°. The rotation curve for the galaxy is flat across much of the radius from the core. The galaxy is moving away from the Milky Way with a heliocentric radial velocity of 1,588 km/s.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1325” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.