NGC 1346

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Galaxy
NGC 1346
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SDSS image of NGC 1346 (below)
SDSS image of NGC 1346 (below)
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Constellation Eridanus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 03 h 30 m 13.2 s
declination -05 ° 32 ′ 36 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sb pec? / LLIRG  
Brightness  (visual) 13.6 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.4 mag
Angular expansion 1 ′ × 0.7 ′
Position angle 85 °
Surface brightness 13.1 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.013539 ± 0.000020  
Radial velocity 4059 ± 60 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(180 ± 13)  x  10 6  ly
(55.1 ± 3.9)  Mpc 
diameter 75,000 ly
history
discovery Édouard Stephan
Discovery date December 15, 1876
Catalog names
NGC  1346 • PGC  13009 • MCG  -01-09-42 • IRAS  03277-0542 • KUG  0327-057 • GC  5313 • LDCE 0261 NED001

NGC 1346 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Eridanus at the southern sky . It is around 180 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 75,000 light years . The object is described as a Type 1 Seyfert galaxy .
Together with PGC 13005 , NGC 1346 forms an interacting pair .

The galaxy was discovered on December 15, 1876 by Édouard Stephan .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 1346
  3. Seligman ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cseligman.com