Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 35 06.388
- Declination
- −36 ° 29 ′ 24.80 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8821 km/s
- Distance
- 396.1 Mly (121.43 Mpc )
- Type
- E /S0
- Size
- 246.49 kiloparsecs (804,000 light-years ), (diameter; 27.0 B-mag arcsec )
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 623 is a large elliptical galaxy located in the Sculptor constellation at a distance of about 400 million light-years away from the Milky Way. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 30 November 1837.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 623” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.