Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.0197889857796969
- Morphology
- SB_a
- Coordinates
- RA 23.9628° · Dec -10.0030°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 35 51.084
- Declination
- −10 ° 00 ′ 10.72 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5873.9 km/s
- Distance
- 273.8 Mly (83.95 Mpc )
- Type
- (R')SB(r)b pec
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- low-ionization nuclear emission-line region
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 81.78
- Image
- NGC 0624 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-11-28
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- catalog code
- LEDA 5932
- redshift
- 0.019614
- apparent magnitude
- 12.450
- galaxy morphological type
- 2
- Commons category
- NGC 624
- right ascension
- 23.9628500
- declination
- -10.0029790
- radial velocity
- 5880
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 624 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, which is about 264 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered on November 28, 1785, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 624” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.