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- Object type
- AG?
- Redshift
- z = 0.01319951063345881
- Coordinates
- RA 9.7649° · Dec -18.6083°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 39 03.6
- Declination
- −18 ° 36 ′ 30 ″
- Distance
- 175 Mly
- Type
- SA0 pec:
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 1.1'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0209 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2363236764564991488
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- redshift
- 0.013112
- right ascension
- 9.76494170037030
- declination
- -18.60826149236660
- radial velocity
- 3931
- apparent magnitude
- 12.9
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 209
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 209 is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 175 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 9, 1885, by Francis Leavenworth.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 209” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.