Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.017706
- Morphology
- SO-a
- Coordinates
- RA 17.1247° · Dec 39.6954°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 08 29.9
- Declination
- +39 ° 41 ′ 44 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,342 km/s
- Distance
- 239 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.3' × 0.4'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0389 DSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-09-06
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 371051952803737984
- redshift
- 0.017706
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- apparent magnitude
- 10.680
- right ascension
- 17.12472139505030
- declination
- 39.69542833751360
- radial velocity
- 5261
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 389
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 389 is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 239 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on September 6, 1885 by Lewis Swift. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, extremely small, round, star near."
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 389” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.