NGC 219
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiC
- Redshift
- z = 0.01819
- Coordinates
- RA 10.5471° · Dec 0.9046°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 42 11.3
- Declination
- +00 ° 54 ′ 16 ″
- Distance
- 245 Mly
- Apparent magnitude v
- 15.0g
- Type
- cE
- Apparent size v
- 0.62' × 0.59'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC219 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2549345256643461504
- radial velocity
- 5469
- discoverer or inventor
- George Phillips Bond
- time of discovery or invention
- 1863-09-16
- apparent magnitude
- 13.321
- epoch
- J2000.0
- redshift
- 0.01821
- galaxy morphological type
- -6
- Commons category
- NGC 219
- right ascension
- 10.54713943288030
- declination
- 0.90455690291090
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 219 is a compact elliptical galaxy located approximately 245 million light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 16, 1863 by George Bond.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 219” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.