Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- EmG
- Redshift
- z = 0.01461
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 9.8952° · Dec 0.8600°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 39 34.820
- Declination
- 00 ° 51 ′ 35.60 ″
- Redshift
- 0.014728 ± 0.000062
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4415 ± 19 km/s
- Galactocentric velocity
- 4505 ± 19 km/s
- Distance
- 61.7 ± 4.3 kpc (201 ± 14 kly ) h , 0.73
- Type
- SAB(r)c
- Size
- 163,230 ly (50.07 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.8' x 1.5'
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 59.04
- Image
- NGC 201 HST 10787 21 R814G606B435.png
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- Commons category
- NGC 201
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2543386242922317312
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-12-28
- radial velocity
- 4522
- apparent magnitude
- 12.295
- galaxy morphological type
- 5
- right ascension
- 9.89520256771970
- declination
- 0.85996720687390
- redshift
- 0.014640
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 201 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. It is one of the group members of HCG 7, with the other group members NGC 192, NGC 196, and NGC 197. It was discovered on December 28, 1790 by William Herschel.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 201: SN 2019yc (Type IIb, mag. 16.7) was discovered by Kōichi Itagaki on 22 January 2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035716” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.