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Q741509
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 17 05.43026
- Declination
- −13 ° 29 ′ 13.5546 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6464 km/s
- Distance
- 213.5 Mly (65.46 Mpc )
- Type
- (R)SB(r)a:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 66.31
- Image
- NGC62 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 62
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2417298961029242240
- redshift
- 0.021562
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1883-10-08
- apparent magnitude
- 10.556
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- right ascension
- 4.27262607878710
- declination
- -13.48709849631620
- radial velocity
- 6464
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 62 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. NGC 62 is its New General Catalogue designation. NGC 62 was discovered by Édouard Stephan from France on 8 October 1883. It has an apparent magnitude of 13.2.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q741509” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.