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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.027226
Morphology
SO-a
Coordinates
RA 32.8068° · Dec -1.4855°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
02 11 13.661
Declination
−01 ° 29 ′ 08.10 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
8051 km/s
Distance
305.8 Mly (93.76 Mpc )
Type
SAB0 (s)

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
99.88
Image
NGC 0850 SDSS.jpg
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discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1785-01-06
catalog code
LEDA 8369
redshift
0.027222
galaxy morphological type
S0a
apparent magnitude
9.816
Commons category
NGC 850
right ascension
32.8069208
declination
-1.4855833
radial velocity
8051
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 850 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 300 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 130,000 ly.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 850” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.