PGC 12788
| Galaxy LEDA / PGC 12788 |
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| PGC 12788 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Chemical furnace |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 25 m 20.3 s |
| declination | -36 ° 23 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) m: / sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.60 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Fornax cluster LGG 98 |
| Redshift | 0.003332 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 999 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(39 ± 3) x 10 6 ly (12.1 ± 0.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1326B • PGC 12788 • ESO 357-029 • MCG -06-08-014 • SGC 032324-3633.5 • GALEX ASC J032520.18-362305.8 • USGC S129 NED66 • FCC 39 | |
LEDA / PGC 12788 (also NGC 1326B ) is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBd in the constellation Fornax in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 39 million light years from the Milky Way and about 45,000 light years across. Together with PGC 12783 , it forms an optical pair of galaxies. It is listed as a member of the Fornax galaxy cluster under catalog number FCC 39 .
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 1317 , NGC 1318 , NGC 1326 , NGC 1336 , among others .
Web links
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- ESO: Image of the region of the sky around NGC 1316 (labeled) October 25, 2017
![PGC 12788 [1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/NGC_1326B.jpg)