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NGC 8

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Also known as New General Catalogue 8

double star system in the constellation Pegasus

Wikidata facts

Instance of
galaxy
Constellation
Pegasus
Image
NGC 0008 SDSS.jpg
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time of discovery or invention
1865-09-29
Commons category
NGC 8
catalog code
LEDA 648
discoverer or inventor
Otto Struve
right ascension
2.18875
declination
23.83861
epoch
J2000.0
apparent magnitude
16.5
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Encyclopedic overview

This is a list of NGC objects 1–1000 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. Other objects in the catalogue can be found in the other subpages of the list of NGC objects.

Compact galaxy group Robert's Quartet

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 8” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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