* Astronomy

NGC 1119 (also PGC 10607, ESO 546-24 and IRAS02459-1811)  is a magnitude +13.8 lenticular galaxy, located 200 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.

The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia on the 17th October 1885.

Right Ascension  02^h 48^m 17.0^s, Declination -17° 59' 17"