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NGC 48
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 14 02.2
- Declination
- +48 ° 14 ′ 05 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1776 ± 8 km/s
- Distance
- 79.3 M ly
- Type
- SABbc
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' x 0.9'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 48 Ps1.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 48
- catalog code
- LEDA 929
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-09-07
- redshift
- 0.005924
- apparent magnitude
- 10.398
- right ascension
- 3.5092292
- declination
- 48.2348806
- radial velocity
- 1776
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
The New General Catalogue object NGC 48 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1,506±21 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 72.4 ± 5.2 Mly (22.21 ± 1.59 Mpc). However, three non-redshift measurements give a much farther mean distance of 136.88 ± 32.82 Mly (41.967 ± 10.064 Mpc). It was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift on 7 September 1885.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 48” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.