NGC 1524
| Galaxy NGC 1516A / NGC 1524 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 04 h 08 m 07.4 s |
| declination | -08 ° 49 ′ 45 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBbc pec / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 55 ° |
| Surface brightness | 11.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.033180 ± 0.000150 |
| Radial velocity | (9947 ± 45) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(441 ± 31) · 10 6 ly (135.2 ± 9.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ormond Stone |
| Discovery date | December 31, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1516A / NGC 1524 • PGC 14515 • MCG -02-11-017 • 2MASX J04080742-0849453 • LDCE 0287 NED001 | |
NGC 1524 = NGC 1516A is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Eridanus in the southern sky . It is an estimated 441 million light years from the Milky Way and forms an interacting pair of galaxies with NGC 1525 .
The object was discovered by Ormond Stone on December 31, 1885 . However, the pair of galaxies had already been observed by Wilhelm Herschel.