Q840013
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 21 28.586
- Declination
- +22 ° 33 ′ 22.96 ″
- Distance
- 289.71 ± 11.92 Mly (88.825 ± 3.655 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 24,000 ly (7,360 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 0.55 ′ × 0.198 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 75.40
- Image
- NGC86 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.018663
- Commons category
- NGC 86
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2800750651918481792
- discoverer or inventor
- Guillaume Bigourdan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-11-14
- apparent magnitude
- 13.200
- right ascension
- 5.36893673695400
- declination
- 22.55644513097000
- radial velocity
- 5543
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 86 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be between 275 and 300 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan in 1884 and its apparent magnitude is 14.9.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q840013” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.