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NGC 27
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
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.