Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.013936680541124291
- Morphology
- SBb
- Coordinates
- RA 27.6840° · Dec 35.2846°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 01 50 44.2
- Declination
- 35 ° 17 ′ 04 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4151 km/s
- Distance
- 193 Mly (59.2 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- SBb (R')SAB(rs)b
- Size
- ~150,000 ly (45 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.5 x 1.5
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Distance from Earth
- 58.88
- Image
- NGC 0688 DSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-09-16
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 318218872901035264
- redshift
- 0.013846
- apparent magnitude
- 10.249
- galaxy morphological type
- SBb
- right ascension
- 27.68402942085890
- declination
- 35.28455778873250
- radial velocity
- 4380
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 688
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 688 is a barred spiral galaxy with starburst activity located 190 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. It was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on September 16, 1865 and is a member of the galaxy cluster Abell 262.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 688” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.