Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.029135801989859322
- Coordinates
- RA 10.8573° · Dec -50.1829°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 43 25.7
- Declination
- −50 ° 10 ′ 58 ″
- Type
- SB(r)b
- Apparent size v
- 1.9' × 1.6'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Image
- NGC 238 DECam.png
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-10-02
- radial velocity
- 8607.5
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4926480050047663616
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 9.808
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb:r
- redshift
- 0.028673
- right ascension
- 10.85726760075600
- declination
- -50.18286919215760
- Commons category
- NGC 238
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 238 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered on October 2, 1834 by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 238” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.