NGC 1177
| Galaxy  NGC 1177 / IC 281  | 
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| NGC 1177 & NGC 1175 SDSS image | |
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| Constellation | Perseus | 
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Position  equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0  | 
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| Right ascension | 03 h 04 m 37.13 s | 
| declination | + 42 ° 21 ′ 46.2 ″ | 
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? | 
| Brightness (visual) | 14.6 mag | 
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.4 mag | 
| Angular expansion | 0.4 ′ × 0.4 ′ | 
| Surface brightness | 12.5 mag / arcmin² | 
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018626 ± 0.000314 | 
| Radial velocity | 5584 ± 94 km / s | 
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Stroke distance  v rad / H 0  | 
(254 ± 18)  x  10 6  ly (78.0 ± 5.6) Mpc  | 
| history | |
| discovery | Lawrence Parsons | 
| Discovery date | November 29, 1874 | 
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1177 • IC 281 • PGC 11581 • CGCG 540-033 • MCG + 07-07-020 • 2MASX J03043715 + 4221463 • NSA 133126 • LDCE 224 NED107 • WISEA J030437.13 + 422145.8 | |
NGC 1177 = IC 281 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type S in the constellation Perseus in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 254 million light years from the Milky Way and about 30,000 light years across. It probably forms a bound galaxy pair with NGC 1175 . 
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 1174 and IC 284 .
The object was discovered by Lawrence Parsons on November 29, 1874 .
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