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'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- 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.