Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 42 15.9
- Declination
- +00 ° 50 ′ 44 ″
- Distance
- 238 Mly
- Apparent magnitude v
- 14.0g
- Type
- SB0
- Apparent size v
- 0.42' × 0.29'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 76
- Image
- NGC 0223 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2549327252140557952
- discoverer or inventor
- George Phillips Bond
- time of discovery or invention
- 1853-01-05
- redshift
- 0.017862
- apparent magnitude
- 12.357
- galaxy morphological type
- 3
- Commons category
- NGC 223
- right ascension
- 10.56615316543340
- declination
- 0.84548589777970
- radial velocity
- 5312
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 223 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 238 million light-years from Earth. It is located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on January 5, 1853, by George Bond.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 223” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.