NGC 679
Sign in to savelenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
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Vinony's link graph records 984 inbound references to NGC 679, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
It sits within the topics Abell 262, Andromeda (constellation) and Astronomical objects discovered in 1784.
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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
- 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
- apparent magnitude
- 9.137
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- right ascension
- 27.4324750
- declination
- 35.7856639
- 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.
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