PGC 10479
| Galaxy LEDA / PGC 10479 |
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| PGC 10479 (o) & NGC 1097 ( ESO : Image taken with the Very Large Telescope ) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Chemical furnace |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 02 h 46 m 09.9 s |
| declination | -30 ° 13 ′ 41 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E. |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.80 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 105 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 1097 group SSRS group 68 LGG 75 |
| Redshift | 0.004563 ± 0.000077 |
| Radial velocity | 1368 ± 23 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(57 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (17.6 ± 1.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1097A • PGC 10479 • ESO 416-019 • MCG -05-07-022 • 2MASX J02460989-3013406 • SGC 024402-3026.3 • Arp 77 • LDCE 187 NED003 | |
LEDA / PGC 10479 (also NGC 1097A ) is an elliptical galaxy of the Hubble type E4 in the constellation Fornax in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 57 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 15,000 light-years across. Together with NGC 1097 , it forms the interacting galaxy pair Arp 77 .
Together with NGC 1079 , NGC 1097, IC 1830 and PGC 10709 it forms the NGC 1097 group .