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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Triangulum
Right ascension
02 15 51.146
Declination
+35 ° 54 ′ 48.89 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
8058 km/s
Distance
360.7 Mly (110.59 Mpc )
Type
Sb

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Triangulum
Distance from Earth
110.59
Image
NGC 0861 DSS.jpg
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discoverer or inventor
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
time of discovery or invention
1865-09-18
catalog code
LEDA 8652
redshift
0.027349
apparent magnitude
10.469
galaxy morphological type
Sb
right ascension
33.9631083
declination
35.9135806
radial velocity
8058
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 861
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 861 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It is estimated to be 360 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 165,000 light-years. The object was discovered on September 18, 1865 by Heinrich d'Arrest.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 861” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.