Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 35 06.388
- Declination
- −36 ° 29 ′ 24.80 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8821 km/s
- Distance
- 396.1 Mly (121.43 Mpc )
- Type
- E /S0
- Size
- 246.49 kiloparsecs (804,000 light-years ), (diameter; 27.0 B-mag arcsec )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 121.43
- Image
- NGC 0623 DSS.jpg
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- declination
- -36.4902222
- epoch
- J2000.0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1837-11-30
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- catalog code
- APMBGC 353+034+090
- redshift
- 0.029871
- apparent magnitude
- 9.585
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- right ascension
- 23.7766167
- radial velocity
- 8821
- Commons category
- NGC 623
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 623 is a large elliptical galaxy located in the Sculptor constellation at a distance of about 400 million light-years away from the Milky Way. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 30 November 1837.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 623” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.