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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 102.05
- Image
- NGC2.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse
- Commons category
- NGC 2
- catalog code
- LEDA 567
- galaxy morphological type
- Sab
- time of discovery or invention
- 1873-08-20
- apparent magnitude
- 10.937
- redshift
- 0.025004
- right ascension
- 1.82131362659590
- declination
- 27.67834232723530
- radial velocity
- 7402
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2 is an intermediate spiral galaxy with the morphological type of Sab, located in the constellation of Pegasus. NGC 2 was discovered by Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse on 20 August 1873.
Observational History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.