Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Redshift
- z = 0.018330541649293375
- Morphology
- SBa
- Coordinates
- RA 10.2917° · Dec 16.4693°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 41 09.9940
- Declination
- +16 ° 28 ′ 09.508 ″
- Distance
- 245.7 ± 17.2 Mly (75.32 ± 5.28 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)a
- Apparent size v
- 1.7' × 1.4'
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 79
- Image
- NGC 0213 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2782162892454786816
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-10-14
- redshift
- 0.018259
- apparent magnitude
- 9.914
- galaxy morphological type
- SBa
- right ascension
- 10.29167508647980
- declination
- 16.46929633845980
- radial velocity
- 5424
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 213
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 213 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on October 14, 1784, by William Herschel.
According to the SIMBAD database, NGC 213 is an Active Galaxy Nucleus Candidate, i.e. it has a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 213” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.