Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 33 05.3
- Declination
- −07 ° 18 ′ 41 ″
- Redshift
- 0.006144 ± 0.000003
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1842 km/s
- Distance
- 92.7 Mly (28.41 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- [CHM2007] HDC 81, [T2015] nest 200207
- Apparent magnitude v
- 12.5±0.1
- Absolute magnitude v
- − 15.69
- Type
- (R')SB(rs)d
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 24.44
- Image
- NGC 0600 SDSS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 600
- catalog code
- LEDA 5777
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-09-10
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.006144
- galaxy morphological type
- SBd
- apparent magnitude
- 10.712
- right ascension
- 23.2720500
- declination
- -7.3114056
- radial velocity
- 1931
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 600 is an emission-line galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered by William Herschel on 10 September 1785. The galaxy has a diameter of 70,000 light-years. It is also approximately 90 million light-years from the Milky Way.
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