Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 39 17.8
- Declination
- +00 ° 54 ′ 46 ″
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.2' × 0.8'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 56.83
- Image
- NGC196 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- -3
- Commons category
- NGC 196
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2543399162184348288
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-12-28
- apparent magnitude
- 15.653
- redshift
- 0.014136
- right ascension
- 9.82434488365310
- declination
- 0.91277037130970
- radial velocity
- 4209
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 196 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on December 28, 1790 by William Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 196” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.