NGC 41

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Galaxy
NGC 41
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 00 h 12 m 48.0 s
declination + 22 ° 01 ′ 24 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sd / LINER  
Brightness  (visual) 13.9 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 14.6 mag
Angular expansion 0.8 ′ × 0.5 ′
Position angle 124.5 °
Surface brightness 12.8 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.019844 ± 0.000033  
Radial velocity 5949 ± 10 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(273 ± 19)  x  10 6  ly
(83.7 ± 5.9)  Mpc 
history
discovery Albert Marth
Discovery date October 30, 1864
Catalog names
NGC  41 • PGC  865 • CGCG  478-042 • MCG  + 04-01-039 • IRAS  00101 + 2144 • KUG  0010 + 217 • 2MASX  J00124795 + 2201239 • GC  5090 • NVSS J001247 + 220124 • LDCE 8 NED002

NGC 41 is a spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core in the constellation Pegasus north of the ecliptic . It is about 273 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 65,000 light years in diameter. Together with NGC 42 , it probably forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair.

The object was discovered on October 30, 1864 by the German astronomer Albert Marth .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c SEDS: NGC 41
  3. LEDA: NGC 41
  4. Seligman