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NGC 39
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 12 18.8525
- Declination
- +31 ° 03 ′ 39.946 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4857 ± 11 km/s
- Distance
- 217.9 ± 15.3 Mly (66.80 ± 4.69 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 7831 Group (LGG 1)
- Type
- SA(rs)c
- Apparent size v
- 1.2 ′ × 1.0 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 65.92
- Image
- NGC39 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 4807
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- catalog code
- [SLK2004] 24
- Commons category
- NGC 39
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-11-02
- redshift
- 0.016201
- apparent magnitude
- 10.587
- right ascension
- 3.0785542
- declination
- 31.0611028
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 39 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 4529 ± 25 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 217.9 ± 15.3 Mly (66.80 ± 4.69 Mpc). It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 2 November 1790.
NGC 7831 Group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 39” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.