Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.017659
- Coordinates
- RA 33.2624° · Dec -42.0335°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 02 13 02.98434
- Declination
- −42 ° 02 ′ 00.6071 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5247 km/s
- Distance
- 236.7 Mly (72.57 Mpc )
- Type
- E
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 72.57
- Image
- NGC 862 legacy dr10.jpg
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- epoch
- J2000.0
- apparent magnitude
- 9.796
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-05
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4956955110755084032
- right ascension
- 33.26243476687380
- redshift
- 0.017712
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- declination
- -42.03350196307020
- radial velocity
- 5247
- Commons category
- NGC 862
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 862 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation of Phoenix about 241 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel in 1834.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 862” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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