NGC 1459
| Galaxy NGC 1459 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Chemical furnace |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 46 m 57.9 s |
| declination | -25 ° 31 ′ 18 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) bc? / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 167 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.013880 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 4161 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(181 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (55.6 ± 3.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ormond Stone |
| Discovery date | 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1459 • PGC 13832 • ESO 482-043 • MCG -04-10-001 • IRAS 3448-2540 • 2MASX J03465794-2531182 • SGC 34451-2540.6 • HIPASS J0347-25 | |
NGC 1459 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Fornax in the southern sky . It is an estimated 181 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 90,000 light years in diameter.
The property was discovered by Ormond Stone in 1886 .