NGC 226
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.016226093599074787
- Coordinates
- RA 10.7253° · Dec 32.5809°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 42 54.0
- Declination
- +32 ° 34 ′ 51 ″
- Distance
- 216 Mly
- Group or cluster
- NGC 315 Group
- Type
- S
- Apparent size v
- 0.9' × 0.9'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 65.32
- Image
- NGC 0226 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 2572
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-11-22
- Commons category
- NGC 226
- radial velocity
- 4830
- redshift
- 0.016094
- right ascension
- 10.7251458
- declination
- 32.5810000
- apparent magnitude
- 11.109
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- 3
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 226 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 216 million light-years from the Sun in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on December 21, 1786, by William Herschel.
According to A.M. Garcia, NGC 226 is a member of the NGC 315 Group (also known as LGG 14). This group contains 42 galaxies, including NGC 243, NGC 262, NGC 266, NGC 311, NGC 315, NGC 338, IC 43, IC 66, AND IC 69, among others.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 226” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.