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NGC 28
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elliptical galaxy in the constellation Phoenix
Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 10 25.2
- Declination
- −56 ° 59 ′ 21 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9640 ± 45 km/s
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 1.5'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 131.97
- Image
- NGC 0028 2MASS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 2.6051875
- Commons category
- NGC 28
- catalog code
- APMBGC 149-058+119
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-10-28
- apparent magnitude
- 10.764
- galaxy morphological type
- S0...
- redshift
- 0.032156
- declination
- -56.9891472
- radial velocity
- 9595
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 28 is an elliptical galaxy located in the Phoenix constellation. It was discovered on 28 October 1834 by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 28” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.