Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiP
- Redshift
- z = 0.016998
- Morphology
- S0
- Coordinates
- RA 23.8676° · Dec 33.6567°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 01 35 28.23015
- Declination
- +33 ° 39 ′ 24.2256 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5053 km/s
- Distance
- 226.9 Mly (69.57 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 608 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It is estimated to be about 230 million light-years from the Milky Way. It has a diameter of approximately 130,000 light-years. NGC 608 was discovered on November 22, 1827, by astronomer John Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 608” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.