Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Redshift
- z = 0.018877756872953233
- Morphology
- Sa-Sc
- Coordinates
- RA 8.9913° · Dec 24.0371°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 36 09.28
- Declination
- +23 ° 57 ′ 44.7 ″
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 533.276
- Image
- NGC162 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- UCAC4 570-001341
- discoverer or inventor
- Herman Schultz
- time of discovery or invention
- 1862-09-05
- Commons category
- NGC 162
- right ascension
- 9.03868352907333
- declination
- 23.96240992899305
- parallax
- 1.8752
- apparent magnitude
- 12.378
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 8.555
- declination component of proper motion
- -6.055
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 162 is a star in the Andromeda constellation. It was discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest in 1862. A few galaxies (PGC 2148 and PGC 212552) have been mis-identified as NGC 162.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 162” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.