Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.015414
- Morphology
- SO-a
- Coordinates
- RA 9.6054° · Dec 3.1664°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 38 25.3
- Declination
- +03 ° 09 ′ 59 ″
- Type
- SB0 pec:
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 0.8'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 62.52
- Image
- NGC 0186 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2550686244217235200
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1862-09-23
- Commons category
- NGC 186
- redshift
- 0.015414
- right ascension
- 9.60541375284710
- declination
- 3.16640963210060
- radial velocity
- 4585
- apparent magnitude
- 9.760
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0a
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 186 is a barred lenticular galaxy located 3.4 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by Bindon Blood Stoney in 1852.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 186” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.