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Q34766
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor
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Vinony's link graph records 838 inbound references to Q34766, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and Q34500.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1785, Discoveries by William Herschel and Galaxies discovered in 1785.
Vinony links it to 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 09 56.542
- Declination
- −24 ° 57 ′ 47.27 ″
- Redshift
- 0.00185 ± 0.00001
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 554.017 ± 2.099 km/s
- Distance
- 23.8 Mly (7.31 Mpc )
- Apparent magnitude v
- +12.4
- Absolute magnitude v
- −17.61
- Type
- SA(s)c
- Apparent size v
- 5.7' x 1.5'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 9
- Image
- The hidden dark side of NGC 24.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 24
- catalog code
- LEDA 701
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-10-27
- redshift
- 0.001848
- apparent magnitude
- 8.955
- right ascension
- 2.4855917
- declination
- -24.9631306
- radial velocity
- 560
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 24 is a spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Sculptor, about 23.8 megalight-years distant from the Milky Way. It was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel in 1785, and measures some 40,000 light-years across. The general shape of this galaxy is specified by its morphological classification of SA(s)c, which indicates it is an unbarred spiral with no ring-like structure and moderate to loosely-wound spiral arms. This galaxy is positioned in the vicinity of the Sculptor Group, but is actually a background object that is about two times as distant. It may form a pair with another background galaxy, NGC 45.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q34766” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.