NGC 1299
| Galaxy NGC 1299 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 20 m 09.7 s |
| declination | -06 ° 15 ′ 43 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) b? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 45 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007792 ± 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | 2336 ± 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(103 ± 7) · 10 6 ly (31.5 ± 2.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | January 27, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1299 • PGC 12466 • MCG -01-09-028 • IRAS 03176-0626 • KUG 0317-064 • 2MASX J03200968-0615428 • GC 688 • H II 287 • h 296 • GALEX ASC J032009.60-061544.0 • LDCE 239 NED003 | |
NGC 1299 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Eridanus at the southern sky . It is an estimated 103 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of about 35,000 ly.
The object was discovered on January 27, 1785 by the astronomer William Herschel .