Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 39 39.5
- Declination
- +03 ° 26 ′ 34 ″
- Distance
- 233 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.9' × 0.3'
- Constellation
- Pisces
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 70.01
- Image
- NGC 0203 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 203
- catalog code
- NGC 211
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discoverer or inventor
- Ralph Copeland
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-11-18
- redshift
- 0.017515
- apparent magnitude
- 10.824
- right ascension
- 9.91472229275730
- declination
- 3.44289661300740
- radial velocity
- 5205
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 203 is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 233 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on December 19, 1873 by Ralph Copeland.
The galaxy is also listed as NGC 211 in the New General Catalogue.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 203” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.