NGC 289
| Galaxy NGC 289 |
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![Image taken with a Ritchey-Chretien telescope in Chile with a 1 m aperture [1]](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:NGC289_from_ChileScope_courtesy_Adam_Block.jpg)
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| Image taken with a Ritchey-Chretien telescope in Chile with a 1 m aperture | |
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| Constellation | sculptor |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 52 m 42.3 s |
| declination | -31 ° 12 ′ 21 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) bc / AGN |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 5 ′, 1 × 3 ′, 6 |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.005434 ± 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | 1629 ± 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(72 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (22.0 ± 1.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | September 27, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 289 • PGC 3089 • ESO 411-25 • MCG -05-03-010 • IRAS 00502-3128 • 2MASX J00524236-3112209 • VV 484 • GC 163 • h 2355 • AM 0050-312 • LDCE 33 NED006 | |
NGC 289 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Sculptor in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 72 million light years from the Milky Way and about 250,000 ly in diameter.
The object was discovered on September 27, 1834 by the British astronomer John Frederick William Herschel .
Web links
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