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NGC 26
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 00 10 25.8591
- Declination
- +25 ° 49 ′ 54.982 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4593 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 204.5 ± 14.4 Mly (62.71 ± 4.40 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 23 Group (LGG 2)
- Type
- SA(rs)ab
- Apparent size v
- 2.25′ × 1.25′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 68.55
- Image
- NGC26 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- Commons category
- NGC 26
- catalog code
- LEDA 732
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-09-14
- redshift
- 0.015317
- apparent magnitude
- 10.418
- right ascension
- 2.60783258772140
- declination
- 25.83191801502440
- radial velocity
- 4557
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 26 is a spiral galaxy in the Pegasus constellation. It was discovered on 14 September 1865 by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest.
NGC 23 group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 26” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.