NGC 1679
| Galaxy data from NGC 1679 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Digger |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 04 h 49 m 54.6 s |
| declination | -31 ° 57 ′ 53 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) w |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.7 ′ × 2 ′ |
| Position angle | 150 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.003509 ± 0.000010 |
| Radial velocity | 1052 ± 3 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(40 ± 3) x 10 6 ly (12.3 ± 0.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | November 18, 1835 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1679 • PGC 16120 • ESO 422-001 • MCG -05-12-004 • IRAS 04480-3203 • 2MASX J04495558-3157558 • SGC 044801-3203.1 • GC 916 • h 2666 • HIPASS J0449-31 • UGCA 96 | |
NGC 1679 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBm in the constellation Gravestones in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 40 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 40,000 light-years across.
The object was discovered by John Herschel on November 18, 1835 .