PGC 12686
| Galaxy LEDA / PGC 12686 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Chemical furnace |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 23 m 37.9 s |
| declination | -36 ° 54 ′ 14 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S. |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.7 '× 0.3' |
| Position angle | 60 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.040798 ± 0.000150 |
| Radial velocity | 12,231 ± 45 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(541 ± 38) · 10 6 Lj (165.9 ± 11.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1316A • PGC 12686 • MCG -06-08-008 • IRAS 03217-3704 • 2MASX J03233793-3654143 • GALEX ASC J032337.98-365413.2 • FCCB 186 | |
LEDA / PGC 12686 (also NGC 1316A ) is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 / a in the constellation Fornax in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 541 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 110,000 light years in diameter. With the catalog number FCCB 186 it is one of the background galaxies of the Fornax galaxy cluster. Together with the galaxies PGC 12687 and PGC 95472 it forms an optical galaxy trio .
The galaxies NGC 1316 , NGC 1317 , NGC 1318 , NGC 1326 are located in the same area of the sky .
Web links
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- Seligman
- ESO: Image of the region of the sky around NGC 1316 (labeled) October 25, 2017