NGC1511 is a barred spiral galaxy in the

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of Hydrus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1341 ± 5km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 19.76 ± 1.39

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(∼64million light-years). It was discovered by British astronomer

John Herschel Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (; 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical wor ...

on 2 November 1834. One

supernova A supernova is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. It has the plural form supernovae or supernovas, and is abbreviated SN or SNe. This transient astronomical event occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when ...

has been observed in NGC1511: SN1935C (type unknown, mag.12.5). The supernova was discovered by Emily Hughes Boyce on 16 August 1935, and was initially thought to be either a supernova, or a

nova A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star (hence the name "nova", which is Latin for "new") that slowly fades over weeks or months. Causes of the dramati ...

associated with the

Large Magellanic Cloud The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), or Nubecula Major, is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (≈160,000 light-years), the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the ...

. It was classified as a nova, and known as either ''HV11970'' or ''Nova Hydri1935''. In September 1988,

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and Martha L. Hazen concluded definitively that the object was a supernova in NGC1511, and the star was given the designation ''SN1935C''.

NGC 1511 Group

According to A.M. Garcia, the galaxy NGC1511 is the central member of the NGC1511 group (also known as LGG 107) that includes

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and

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014236 03594-6746 Hydrus Astronomical objects discovered in 1834 Discoveries by John Herschel +00-12-072 Barred spiral galaxies

NGC 1511 Group

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