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Vinony's link graph records 911 inbound references to NGC 42, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1864, Lenticular galaxies and NGC objects.
Vinony links it to 47 Wikipedia language editions.
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 :
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 80.70
- Image
- NGC42 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 42
- catalog code
- LEDA 867
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- 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
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 42” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.