NGC 1530
| Galaxy NGC 1530 |
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| Image taken with a 24-inch telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | giraffe |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 04 h 23 m 27.1 s |
| declination | + 75 ° 17 ′ 44 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) b |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 4.4 ′ × 2.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 24 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.008209 (+/- 0.000013) |
| Radial velocity | 2461 +/- 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(117 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (35.8 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| diameter | 155,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Temple |
| Discovery date | 1876 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1530 • UGC 3013 • PGC 15018 • CGCG 327-17 • CGCG 347-4 • MCG + 13-4-4 • IRAS 04170 + 7510 • KUG 0417 + 751 • 2MASX J04232710 + 7517440 • GC 5334 • VII Zw 12 • Kara 147 | |
NGC 1530 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Giraffe in the northern sky. It is around 117 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 155,000 light years .
The galaxy was discovered by the astronomer Wilhelm Tempel in 1876 with an Amici refractor with a 283 mm aperture.
Detailed study of the center and an arm of NGC 1530 using the Hubble Space Telescope