NGC 1072
| Galaxy NGC 1072 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | whale |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 02 h 43 m 31.3 s |
| declination | + 00 ° 18 ′ 25 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) b: / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 11 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.026744 ± 0.000086 |
| Radial velocity | 8018 ± 26 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(359 ± 25) x 10 6 ly (110.0 ± 7.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | December 20, 1881 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1072 • IC 1837 • UGC 2208 • PGC 10315 • MCG + 00-07-088 • IRAS 2409 + 0005 • KUG 0240 + 000 • 2MASX J02433129 + 0018244 • GALEX MSC J024331.30 + 001827.6 | |
NGC 1072 = IC 1837 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Whale south of the ecliptic . It is an estimated 359 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 160,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 1055 , NGC 1068 , NGC 1090 .
The type II supernova SN 2004I was observed here.
The object was discovered on December 20, 1881 by Édouard Stephan (listed as NGC 1072 ) and on January 24, 1898 by Stéphane Javelle (listed as IC 1837 )