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NGC 38
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 11 46.984
- Declination
- −05 ° 35 ′ 10.37 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7927 ± 1 km/s
- Type
- (R)Sab:
- Apparent size v
- 1.4 ′ × 1.3 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC38 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 38
- catalog code
- LEDA 818
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1881-10-25
- redshift
- 0.026802
- apparent magnitude
- 9.801
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- right ascension
- 2.9457667
- declination
- -5.5862139
- radial velocity
- 7927
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 38 (also known by the designations MCG-1-1-47 or PGC 818) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on 30 September 1867 by Édouard Stephan.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 38” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.