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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.018150469133364933
Morphology
SO
Coordinates
RA 9.9345° · Dec 3.2996°
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Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
00 39 44.3
Declination
+03 ° 17 ′ 58 ″
Distance
241 Mly
Type
SA0 (s) pec:
Apparent size v
1.2' × 1.1'

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Pisces
Distance from Earth
72.30
Image
NGC 0204 SDSS.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 2397
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1827-10-16
apparent magnitude
9.726
galaxy morphological type
cG
Commons category
NGC 204
redshift
0.017986
right ascension
9.9344500
declination
3.2996083
radial velocity
5392
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 204 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy located approximately 241 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on December 21, 1786 by William Herschel.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 204” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.