NGC 1169
| Galaxy NGC 1169 |
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| NGC 1169 with LEDA 2280846 (left) 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory . | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Perseus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 03 m 34.75 s |
| declination | + 46 ° 23 ′ 10.9 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (r) b |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 4.0 ′ × 2.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 28 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007962 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 2387 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(112 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (34.4 ± 2.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 11, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1169 • UGC 2503 • PGC 11521 • CGCG 554-020 • MCG + 08-06-025 • 2MASX J03033475 + 4623107 • GC 635 • H II 620 • h 279 • LDCE 224 NED103 • NVSS J030334 + 462312 • WISEA J030334.71 +462310.9 | |
NGC 1169 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Perseus in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 112 million light years from the Milky Way and about 130,000 light years across.
The object was discovered on December 11th, 1786 by the astronomer Wilhelm Herschel with the help of his 18.7 inch mirror telescope.
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