NGC 1363
| Galaxy NGC 1363 |
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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 34 m 49.6 s |
| declination | -09 ° 50 ′ 33 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB? (R:) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 '× 0.7' |
| Position angle | 69 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.031882 +/- 0.000120 |
| Radial velocity | 9558 +/- 36 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(425 ± 30) x 10 6 ly (130.2 ± 9.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Sherbourne Wesley Burnham |
| Discovery date | December 31, 1877 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1363 • PGC 13245 • IRAS 03324-1000 • 2MASX J03344957-0950332 • 2MASS J03344955-0950327 • NVSS J033449-095032 | |
NGC 1363 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Eridanus at the southern sky . It is an estimated 425 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 110,000 ly. Together with NGC 1364 , it probably forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair.
The object was discovered on December 31, 1877 by Sherburne Wesley Burnham .