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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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 121.43
- Image
- NGC 0623 DSS.jpg
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- declination
- -36.4902222
- time of discovery or invention
- 1837-11-30
- catalog code
- APMBGC 353+034+090
- redshift
- 0.029871
- apparent magnitude
- 9.585
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- right ascension
- 23.7766167
- radial velocity
- 8821
- Commons category
- NGC 623
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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.
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