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NGC 97
Sign in to saveAlso known as New General Catalogue 96, UGC 216, MCG 5-2-7, ZWG 500.9, PGC 1442
elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
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Vinony's link graph records 983 inbound references to NGC 97, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 95.
Vinony files it under Andromeda (constellation), Astronomical objects discovered in 1828 and Discoveries by John Herschel.
Vinony links it to 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 22 29.988
- Declination
- +29 ° 44 ′ 43.34 ″
- Distance
- 231.41 ± 13.61 Mly (70.950 ± 4.172 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 108 group (LGG 5)
- Type
- E?
- Size
- 104,200 ly (31,960 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.548 ′ (major axis)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0097 SDSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1828-09-16
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2857526821036744832
- redshift
- 0.015898
- apparent magnitude
- 9.529
- galaxy morphological type
- E:
- Commons category
- NGC 97
- right ascension
- 5.62506795802320
- declination
- 29.74531232016840
- radial velocity
- 4748
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 97 is an elliptical galaxy estimated to be about 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by John Herschel on 16 September 1828, and its apparent magnitude is 13.5.
NGC 108 Group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 97” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.