NGC 1409
| Galaxy NGC 1409 |
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| NGC 1409 (bottom) and NGC 1410 (top) captured by the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | bull |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 41 m 10.4 s |
| declination | -01 ° 18 ′ 09 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB: pec Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | (25851 ± 133) · 10 −6 |
| Radial velocity | 7750 ± 40 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(345 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (105.7 ± 7.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | January 6, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1409 • UGC 2821 • PGC 13553 • CGCG 391-028 NED01 • MCG + 00-10-11 • 2MASX J03411054-0118101 • GC 753 • H III 263 • h 304 • KPG 93A • VV 729a • III Zw 55 | |
NGC 1409 is the name of a spiral galaxy in the constellation Taurus that is 345 million light years away from the Milky Way . It interacts with the galaxy NGC 1410 , from which it is around 23,000 light years away. It is believed that the two galaxies collided about 100 million years ago and that they will merge in about 200 million years.
The galaxy was discovered on January 6, 1785 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
Commons : NGC 1409 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Astronomie.de
- Interacting galaxies
- goBlack
- NGC 1410/1409: Intergalactic Pipeline - Astronomy Picture of the Day of January 12, 2001.
- Astronews
- Mass Transfer in the Galaxy Pair NGC 1409/10