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Q622708
Sign in to saveAlso known as New General Catalogue 88, Robert's Quartet 2, ESO 194-10, AM 0018-485, PGC 1370
spiral galaxy in the constellation Phoenix
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Vinony's link graph records 827 inbound references to Q622708, and connects out to list of stars in Phoenix, list of NGC objects (1–1000) and light-year.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1834, Barred spiral galaxies and NGC objects.
Vinony links it to 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 21 21.8
- Declination
- −48 ° 38 ′ 25 ″
- Distance
- 160 Mly
- Type
- SB(rs)a pec
- Apparent size v
- 0.8 ′ × 0.5 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 160000000
- Image
- Phot-34a-05-fullres.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 88
- catalog code
- APMBGC 194+099-061
- redshift
- 0.011615
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-30
- apparent magnitude
- 12.609
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- right ascension
- 5.3422167
- declination
- -48.6400778
- radial velocity
- 3462
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 88 is a barred spiral galaxy exhibiting an inner ring structure located about 160 million light years from the Earth in the Phoenix constellation. NGC 88 is interacting with the galaxies NGC 92, NGC 87 and NGC 89. It is part of a family of galaxies called Robert's Quartet discovered by astronomer John Herschel in the 1830s.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q622708” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.