Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 35 02.34063
- Declination
- +41 ° 14 ′ 53.3204 ″
- Redshift
- 0.01705 ± 0.00010
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,110.86 ± 29.98
- Distance
- 233.6 ± 16.4 Mly (71.63 ± 5.04 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Size
- ~154,800 ly (47.46 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.827 × 0.496 arcmin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0605 DSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 348026358251938816
- time of discovery or invention
- 1881-10-21
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- redshift
- 0.017012
- apparent magnitude
- 10.023
- right ascension
- 23.75975263123960
- declination
- 41.24814455545500
- radial velocity
- 5057
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 605
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 605 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda, which is about 234 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered on October 21, 1881 by the French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan.
SIMBAD lists NGC 605 as an active galaxy nucleus candidate.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 605” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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