Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02 29 11.777
- Declination
- −11 ° 01 ′ 28.78 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4692 km/s
- Distance
- 204.5 Mly (62.71 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)b:
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- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 62.71
- Image
- NGC 0950 DSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Ormond Stone
- catalog code
- LEDA 9461
- redshift
- 0.015651
- apparent magnitude
- 10.780
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- right ascension
- 37.2990708
- declination
- -11.0246611
- radial velocity
- 4692
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 950
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 950 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is approximately 205 million light-years away from the Solar System and has a diameter of about 85,000 light-years. The object was discovered in 1886 by American astronomer and mathematician Ormond Stone.
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