NGC 1627
| Galaxy NGC 1627 |
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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 37 m 38.0 s |
| declination | -04 ° 53 ′ 15 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (r) c / pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 1.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 138 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.012866 +/- 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 3857 +/- 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(169 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (51.7 ± 3.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | December 22, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1627 • PGC 15675 • MCG -01-12-040 • IRAS 04351-0459 • 2MASX J04373798-0453148 • HIPASS J0437-04 | |
NGC 1627 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Eridanus at the southern sky . It is estimated to be 169 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 80,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 1619 , NGC 1621 , NGC 1628 , among others .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on December 22, 1886 .