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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
EmG
Redshift
z = 0.018623
Coordinates
RA 27.2691° · Dec -14.9748°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 40 04.5754
Declination
−14 ° 58 ′ 29.019 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5602 ± 19 km/s
Distance
256.8 ± 18.0 Mly (78.73 ± 5.53 Mpc )
Type
SA0-
Size
~105,900 ly (32.46 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.4′ × 1.1′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
galaxy
Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
67.68
Image
NGC 0682 DSS.jpg
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time of discovery or invention
1785-12-30
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
catalog code
LEDA 6663
redshift
0.018623
apparent magnitude
9.435
galaxy morphological type
E-S0
right ascension
27.2692000
declination
-14.9748806
radial velocity
5531
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 682
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 682 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 5,338 ± 26 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 78.7 ± 5.5 Mpc (~257 million light-years). It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 30 December 1785.

One supernova has been observed in NGC 682: SN 2023xtg (Type Ia, mag. 18.1) was discovered by Kōichi Itagaki on 14 November 2023.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 682” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.