NGC 1518
| Galaxy NGC 1518 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 04 h 06 m 49.7 s |
| declination | -21 ° 10 ′ 22 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) dm / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.9 ′ × 1.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 35 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | +0.003069 ± 0.000010 |
| Radial velocity | +920 ± 3 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(36 ± 3) x 10 6 ly (11.1 ± 0.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | November 13, 1835 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1518 • PGC 14475 • ESO 550-007 • MCG -04-10-013 • IRAS 04046-2118 • 2MASX J04064970-2110214 • SGC 040439-2118.7 • GC 813 • h 2611 • HIPASS J0406-21 | |
NGC 1518 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation areas of the Hubble type SBd in the constellation Eridanus in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 36 million light years from the Milky Way and about 30,000 light years across .
The galaxy NGC 1521 is located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered by John Herschel on November 13, 1835 and added by Dreyer to the New General Catalog .
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