NGC 1234
| Galaxy NGC 1234 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 09 m 39.0 s |
| declination | -07 ° 50 ′ 45 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (r) cd / pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.8 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 141 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.012445 ± 0.000010 |
| Radial velocity | 3731 ± 3 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(165 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (50.7 ± 3.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Francis Leavenworth |
| Discovery date | 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1234 • PGC 11813 • MCG -01-09-011 • 2MASX J03093900-0750433 • | |
NGC 1234 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBcd in the constellation Eridanus south of the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 165 million light years from the Milky Way and about 90,000 ly in diameter.
The object was discovered by Francis Leavenworth in 1886 .
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