NGC 12
| Galaxy NGC 12 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 08 m 44.7 s |
| declination | + 04 ° 36 ′ 45 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c: |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 1.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 127.2 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.013146 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 3941 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(181 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (55.6 ± 3.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 6, 1790 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 12 • UGC 74 • PGC 645 • MCG + 01-01-040 • IRAS F00061 + 0419 • 2MASX J00084475 + 0436451 • GC 4 • h 1 • H III 868 • GALEX ASC J000844.73 + 043646.3 | |
NGC 12 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 181 million light years from the Milky Way and about 60,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on December 6, 1790 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .