Q1035760
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 40 48.9
- Declination
- −56 ° 12 ′ 51 ″
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 0.9'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 89.17
- Image
- NGC 0215 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- APMBGC 150-042+076
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-10-28
- redshift
- 0.027449
- right ascension
- 10.2035458
- declination
- -56.2140083
- apparent magnitude
- 9.835
- radial velocity
- 8229
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- Commons category
- NGC 215
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 215 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered on October 28, 1834, by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035760” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.