NGC 679
Sign in to savelenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 49 43.8
- Declination
- 35 ° 47 ′ 08 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5049 km/s
- Distance
- 213 Mly (65.4 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- E, S0^-
- Size
- ~106,000 ly (32.4 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.1 x 2.1
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 68.21
- Image
- NGC 0679 DSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.016837
- catalog code
- LEDA 6711
- radial velocity
- 5007
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-15
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 9.137
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- right ascension
- 27.4324750
- declination
- 35.7856639
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 679
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 679 is an elliptical or a lenticular galaxy located 210 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on September 13, 1784 and is a member of Abell 262.
It is also a radio galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 679” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.