NGC 1175

Peanut Galaxy
The galaxy, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope during the Gems of the Galaxy Zoos project
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Perseus
Right ascension	03h 04m 32s
Declination	+42° 20’ 21”
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.8
Surface brightness	23.71 mag/arcsec^2
Characteristics
Type	S0A-S0B-SABa
Other designations
NGC 1175, PGC 11578, MCG 7-7-19, UGC 2515, CGCG 540-32

NGC 1175, also known as the Peanut Galaxy, is a large lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Perseus. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 5,349 ± 19 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 78.9 ± 5.5 Mpc (∼257 million ly). It was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1786.

NGC 1175 is about the same distance from the Milky Way as NGC 1177. These two galaxies form a gravitationally interacting pair.

To date, a non-redshift measurement gives a distance of approximately 44,900 Mpc (∼146 million ly). This value is far outside the Hubble distance values. Note that it is with the average value of independent measurements, when they exist, that the NASA/IPAC database calculates the diameter of a galaxy.

See also

• List of galaxies
• List of NGC objects (1001–2000)

External links

• NGC 1175 at NASA/IPAC
• NGC 1175 at SIMBAD
• NGC 1175 at SEDS
• NGC 1175 at LEDA