Q522852
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 19 04.94039
- Declination
- −22 ° 56 ′ 10.8306 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7509 km/s
- Distance
- 286.69 ± 0.65 Mly (87.90 ± 0.20 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(r)b pec
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 102.36
- Image
- NGC 66 DECam PS1.png
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- radial velocity
- 7509
- Commons category
- NGC 66
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2360297666905158016
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- redshift
- 0.025364
- discoverer or inventor
- Frank Muller
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 10.394
- right ascension
- 4.77058497866770
- declination
- -22.93634184234300
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 66 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Frank Muller in 1886, and is located in the Cetus constellation.
PanSTARRS view of NGC 66 and NGC 65
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q522852” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.