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- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.010512487560498052
- Coordinates
- RA 83.8566° · Dec -17.8152°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Right ascension
- 05 35 25.6
- Declination
- −17 ° 48 ′ 55 ″
- Distance
- 143 million
- Type
- SA0^-(rs)
- Apparent size v
- 1.5 x 1.4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Distance from Earth
- 42.25
- Image
- NGC 1993 Aladin.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- LEDA 17487
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-02-06
- redshift
- 0.010521
- apparent magnitude
- 9.319
- right ascension
- 83.8565667
- declination
- -17.8152389
- radial velocity
- 3135
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 1993
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1993 (also known as ESO 554-14) is a lenticular galaxy located in the Lepus constellation. It was discovered by John Herschel on February 6, 1835. It is about 143 million light years from the Milky Way. Its apparent magnitude is 13.39 and its size is 1.5 arc minutes.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 1993: SN 2024sag (type Ia-91bg-like, mag. 18.7).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1993” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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