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Also known as New General Catalogue 49

lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

Key facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Right ascension
00 14 22.4
Declination
+48 ° 14 ′ 48 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
(+4774 ± 24) km/s
Distance
225 ± 16 Mly (69.0 ± 4.9 Mpc )
Apparent magnitude v
+14.1
Apparent magnitude b
+15.1
Type
S0?
Apparent size v
1.1′ × 1.0′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Distance from Earth
65.61
Image
NGC 0049 2MASS.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
S0
Commons category
NGC 49
catalog code
Gaia DR2 392755144107413760
discoverer or inventor
Lewis A. Swift
time of discovery or invention
1885-09-07
redshift
0.015684
apparent magnitude
10.518
right ascension
3.59341795273960
declination
48.24650244457830
radial velocity
4774
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 49 is a lenticular galaxy in the Andromeda constellation. The galaxy was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift on September 7, 1885.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 49” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.