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NGC 10
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor
Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 08 34.53660
- Declination
- −33 ° 51 ′ 30.1884 ″
- Redshift
- 0.022719 ± 0.000033
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6,811 ± 10 km/s
- Distance
- 346.3 Mly (106.17 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude v
- −21.55
- Type
- SAB(rs)bc or SBbc
- Size
- ~260,000 ly (79.49 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.373′ × 0.879′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 94.62
- Image
- NGC 10 ESO-LV 3490320 I B R.png
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- Commons category
- NGC 10
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2310185397244357504
- radial velocity
- 6739
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-25
- redshift
- 0.022719
- apparent magnitude
- 9.205
- right ascension
- 2.14390250686910
- declination
- -33.85838567284350
- epoch
- J2000.0
- absolute magnitude
- -23.5
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 10 is a spiral galaxy located in the southern constellation of Sculptor. It was discovered by John Herschel on 25 September 1834.
Properties
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 10” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.