NGC 187
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.013135754068903228
- Coordinates
- RA 9.8767° · Dec -14.6564°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 39 30.4
- Declination
- −14 ° 39 ′ 23 ″
- Type
- SB(s)cd
- Apparent size v
- 1.17' × 0.49'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 187 DECam.png
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- catalog code
- LEDA 2380
- discoverer or inventor
- Ormond Stone
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- redshift
- 0.013212
- apparent magnitude
- 10.377
- galaxy morphological type
- 5
- right ascension
- 9.8767125
- declination
- -14.6562528
- radial velocity
- 3961
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 187
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 187 is a barred spiral galaxy located around 3.2 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in 1893 by William Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 187” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.