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NGC 27

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Also known as New General Catalogue 27

spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

Key facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Right ascension
00 10 32.75799
Declination
+28 ° 59 ′ 46.4283 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
6941 km/s
Distance
327.66 ± 0.65 Mly (100.46 ± 0.20 Mpc )
Type
Sbc

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Andromeda
Distance from Earth
95.09
Image
NGC27 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 2860232268180365568
Commons category
NGC 27
discoverer or inventor
Lewis A. Swift
time of discovery or invention
1884-08-03
apparent magnitude
10.425
redshift
0.023460
galaxy morphological type
S
right ascension
2.63649164081230
declination
28.99623009701770
radial velocity
7849
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 27 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on 3 August 1884 by Lewis Swift. It forms a galaxy pair with the nearby UGC 95.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 27” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.