Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.017058
- Coordinates
- RA 10.0733° · Dec 2.7563°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 40 17.6
- Declination
- +02 ° 45 ′ 23 ″
- Distance
- 229 Mly
- Type
- Sa
- Apparent size v
- 0.7' × 0.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0208 SDSS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 10.0732333
- catalog code
- LEDA 2420
- declination
- 2.7565306
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1863-10-05
- redshift
- 0.017058
- apparent magnitude
- 11.550
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- Commons category
- NGC 208
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 5070
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 208 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 229 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on October 5, 1863, by Albert Marth.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 208” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.