Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.02010244811620332
- Coordinates
- RA 23.9020° · Dec -39.3578°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 35 36.475
- Declination
- −39 ° 21 ′ 28.39 ″
- Redshift
- 0.01976 ± 0.00006
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,923.90 ± 18.89
- Distance
- 275.2 ± 19.3 Mly (84.39 ± 5.92 Mpc )
- Type
- SA0 (rs):
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 81.01
- Image
- NGC 0630 DSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-10-23
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- catalog code
- APMBGC 297+109-023
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- apparent magnitude
- 9.487
- right ascension
- 23.9019792
- declination
- -39.3578861
- radial velocity
- 5966
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 630
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 630 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It is estimated to be 275 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 125,000 light years. The object was discovered on October 23, 1835 by the English astronomer John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 630” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.