NGC 1448

NGC 1448
NGC 1448 by NuSTAR and the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Horologium
Right ascension	03h 44m 31.9s[1]
Declination	−44° 38′ 41″[1]
Redshift	1168 ± 2 km/s[1]
Distance	56.5 ± 7.6 Mly (17.3 ± 2.3 Mpc)[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)	10.7
Characteristics
Type	SAcd [1]
Apparent size (V)	7.6′ × 1.7′[1]
Other designations
NGC 1457, PGC 13727[1]

NGC 1448 or NGC 1457 is an unbarred spiral galaxy seen nearly edge-on in the constellation Horologium. It is at a distance of 55 million light years from Earth. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1835.

From the spectral analysis of SN 2001el, over a dozen diffuse interstellar bands were discovered in NGC 1448 – one of the few cases that these bands were observed outside of the Milky Way. However, the bands were significantly weaker at SN 2003hn.^[2]

In January 2017 it was announced that evidence for a supermassive black hole in NGC 1448 had been found in the center of the galaxy.^[3]

The galaxy belongs to the NGC 1433 group,^[4] part of the Doradus cloud of galaxies.

Six supernovae have been discovered in NGC 1448: SN 1983S (type II, mag. 14.5),^[5] SN 2001el (type Ia, mag. 14.5),^[6] SN 2003hn (type II, mag. 14.1),^[7] SN 2014df (type Ib, mag. 14),^[8] SN 2020zbv (type IIP, mag. 18.8),^[9] and SN 2021pit (type Ia, mag. 12.3).^[10]

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  NGC 1448 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3.^[11]

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