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Vinony's link graph records 474 inbound references to Q748398, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1001–2000), solar mass and epoch.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1876, Elliptical galaxies and NGC objects.
Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 03 20 06.1
- Declination
- 41 ° 37 ′ 48 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4300 km/s
- Distance
- 195.7 ± 3.3 Mly (60 ± 1 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Perseus Cluster
- Type
- E5
- Mass light ratio
- 1.7 M ☉ / L ☉
- Size
- ~17,000 ly (5.2 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.0 x 0.7
- Half light radius physical
- ~4,200 ly (1.3 kpc ) (estimated)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 58.72
- Image
- G126 021 013040.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 12458
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 1281
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-12-12
- redshift
- 0.014156
- apparent magnitude
- 10.064
- right ascension
- 50.0254375
- declination
- 41.6300861
- radial velocity
- 4214
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1281 is a compact elliptical galaxy located about 200 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. NGC 1281 was discovered by astronomer John Dreyer on December 12, 1876. It is a member of the Perseus Cluster.
Like NGC 1277 and NGC 1271, NGC 1281 is a candidate "relic galaxy".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q748398” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.