Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02 31 41.302
- Declination
- −09 ° 18 ′ 01.01 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4827 km/s
- Distance
- 185.1 Mly (56.75 Mpc )
- Type
- SABb
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 58.51
- Image
- NGC 0960 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- catalog code
- LEDA 9621
- apparent magnitude
- 12.600
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- Commons category
- NGC 960
- right ascension
- 37.9220917
- declination
- -9.3002806
- radial velocity
- 4916
- redshift
- 0.016398
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 960 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered in 1886 by Francis Preserved Leavenworth.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 960” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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