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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 00 12 56.361
- Declination
- +22 ° 06 ′ 01.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5914 km/s
- Distance
- 263.2 Mly (80.70 Mpc )
- Type
- S0 :
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 80.70
- Image
- NGC42 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 42
- catalog code
- LEDA 867
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-10-30
- redshift
- 0.019937
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- apparent magnitude
- 10.113
- right ascension
- 3.2348375
- declination
- 22.1002778
- radial velocity
- 5914
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NGC 42 is a lenticular galaxy in the Pegasus constellation. It was discovered on October 30, 1864, by the German astronomer Albert Marth. It may be gravitationally interacting with the nearby NGC 41.
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