NGC 49
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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′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- 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.