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NGC 13
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 08 47.72
- Declination
- +33 ° 26 ′ 00.0 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4808 ± 9 km/s
- Distance
- 215.8 ± 15.1 Mly (66.15 ± 4.64 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude v
- − 19.76
- Type
- (R)Sab:
- Apparent size v
- 2.2 ′ × 0.4 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 65.43
- Image
- NGC13 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 13
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2875640725349020544
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-11-26
- redshift
- 0.015974
- apparent magnitude
- 9.746
- right ascension
- 2.19881215233770
- declination
- 33.43332691548140
- radial velocity
- 4751
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 13 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It is estimated to be about 220 million light-years (66 Megaparsecs) away from the Sun. It was discovered on November 26, 1790, by William Herschel.
NGC 7831 Group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 13” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.