NGC 908
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It sits within the topics Cetus, Discoveries by William Herschel and Galaxies discovered in 1786.
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy1
- Redshift
- z = 0.004996262309883148
- Morphology
- SA(s)c
- Coordinates
- RA 35.7690° · Dec -21.2339°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02 23 04.6
- Declination
- −21 ° 14 ′ 02 ″
- Redshift
- 1509 ± 5 km / s
- Distance
- 56.0 ± 5.7 Mly (17.2 ± 1.8 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 908 group
- Type
- SA(s)c
- Apparent size v
- 6′.0 × 2′.6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 15
- Image
- NGC908.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 908
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-09-20
- catalog code
- LEDA 9057
- declination
- -21.2338500
- apparent magnitude
- 7.229
- galaxy morphological type
- SA(s)c
- right ascension
- 35.7690375
- radial velocity
- 1492
- redshift
- 0.004997
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 908 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on 20 September 1786 by William Herschel. This galaxy is 56 million light years away from Earth. It is the main galaxy in the NGC 908 group, which also includes NGC 899, NGC 907, and IC 223.
Appearance
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 908” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.