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NGC 36
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 11 22.3
- Declination
- +06 ° 23 ′ 22 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6030 ± 4 km/s
- Distance
- 221 M ly , (67.7 M pc )
- Type
- SBb
- Apparent size v
- 2.2 ′ × 1.3 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- low-ionization nuclear emission-line region
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 69.82
- Image
- NGC36 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 36
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2742579649221855872
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-10-25
- apparent magnitude
- 9.603
- galaxy morphological type
- SBb
- redshift
- 0.020367
- right ascension
- 2.84291089066530
- declination
- 6.38934080949200
- radial velocity
- 6030
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 36 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located about 221 million light-years (68 megaparsecs) away. It was discovered in October 25, 1785, by the astronomer William Herschel.
NGC 36 (2MASS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 36” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.