NGC 98
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Phoenix
Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 22 49.518
- Declination
- −45 ° 16 ′ 08.43 ″
- Distance
- 290 Mly (89 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)bc
- Size
- 185,400 ly (56,850 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 2.3 ′ × 1.8 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Image
- NGC 98 DECam.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 6171.0
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-06
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4978722176809172864
- apparent magnitude
- 9.759
- redshift
- 0.020594
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- right ascension
- 5.70649647022940
- declination
- -45.26905572756830
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 98
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 98 is a barred spiral galaxy in the Phoenix constellation. The galaxy NGC 98 was discovered on September 6, 1834, by the British astronomer John Frederick William Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 98” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.