NGC 1190

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Galaxy
NGC 1190
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Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope: NGC 1190 is on the right, the other galaxies are background objects.
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope : NGC 1190 is on the right, the other galaxies are background objects.
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Constellation Eridanus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 03 h 03 m 26.1 s
declination -15 ° 39 ′ 43 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0  
Brightness  (visual) 14.2 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.2 mag
Angular expansion 0.9 ′ × 0.3 ′
Position angle 95 °
Surface brightness 12.4 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation HCG 22  
Redshift 0.008733 ± 0.000090  
Radial velocity 2618 ± 27 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(115 ± 8)  x  10 6  ly
(35.2 ± 2.5)  Mpc 
history
discovery Francis P. Leavenworth
Discovery date December 2, 1885
Catalog names
NGC  1190 • PGC  11508 • MCG  -03-08-062 • 2MASX  J03032612-1539429 • HCG  22B • GALEX ASC J030326.14-153942.4

NGC 1190 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Eridanus in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 115 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 30,000 ly. Together with NGC 1189 , NGC 1191 , NGC 1192 and NGC 1199 , it forms the galaxy group HCG 22 .

The object was discovered on December 2, 1885 by the astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth .

Web links

Commons : NGC 1190  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 1190
  3. Seligman