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NGC 43
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
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Vinony's link graph records 986 inbound references to NGC 43, and connects out to parsec, list of NGC objects (1–1000) and epoch.
Vinony files it under Andromeda (constellation), Astronomical objects discovered in 1827 and Discoveries by John Herschel.
Vinony links it to 47 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 13 00.7647
- Declination
- +30 ° 54 ′ 54.901 ″
- Redshift
- 0.015 961 ± 0.000 033
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,785 ± 10 km/s
- Distance
- 65.0 ± 4.6 Mpc (212 ± 15.1 million ly )
- Type
- SB0
- Size
- ~122,300 ly (37.50 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.6′ × 1.5′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 64.94
- Image
- NGC43 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2861540450795210368
- Commons category
- NGC 43
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-11-11
- redshift
- 0.015961
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- apparent magnitude
- 9.450
- right ascension
- 3.25322280606380
- declination
- 30.91523781403920
- radial velocity
- 4740
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 43 is a lenticular galaxy in the Andromeda constellation. It has a diameter of approximately 37 kiloparsecs (122,000 light-years). It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 11 November 1827.
NGC 7831 Group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 43” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.