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EntityQ1035639· pop 36· linked from 984 articles

Also known as New General Catalogue 162

star in the constellation Andromeda

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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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.