NGC 1206
| Galaxy NGC 1206 |
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| NGC 1206 & NGC 1208 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 06 m 09.7 s |
| declination | -08 ° 49 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E1? |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.5 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.034194 +/- 0.000500 |
| Radial velocity | 10251 +/- 150 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(457 ± 33) x 10 6 ly (140.0 ± 10.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Francis Leavenworth |
| Discovery date | 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1206 • PGC 11644 • 2MASX J03060977-0849598 • LDCE 0216 NED007 | |
NGC 1206 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E in the constellation Eridanus south of the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 457 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 70,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 1208 , NGC 1214 , NGC 1216 , IC 1880 .
The object was discovered in 1886 by the astronomer Francis Leavenworth .