Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 50 33.2
- Declination
- 36 ° 22 ′ 15 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5091 km/s
- Distance
- 220 Mly (66 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- S0
- Size
- ~110,000 ly (33.6 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.4 x 1.4
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 687 is a lenticular galaxy located 220 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on September 21, 1786 and is a member of Abell 262.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 687” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.