NGC 1572
| Galaxy NGC 1572 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Digger |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 04 h 22 m 42.8 s |
| declination | -40 ° 36 ′ 03 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R'_1) SB (s) a / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.4 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 0 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.020384 +/- 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 6111 +/- 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(266 ± 19) · 10 6 ly (81.6 ± 5.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | October 23, 1835 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1572 • PGC 14993 • ESO 303-014 • MCG -07-10-003 • IRAS 04210-4042 • 2MASX J04224281-4036034 • SGC 42101-4042.9 • LEDA 14993 | |
NGC 1572 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Caelum in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 266 million light years from the Milky Way and about 190,000 light years in diameter .
The Type Ia supernova SN 2009la was observed here.
The object was discovered by John Herschel on October 23, 1835 .