Q1035813
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 43 32.4
- Declination
- +14 ° 20 ′ 33 ″
- Apparent magnitude v
- 13.3g
- Type
- SABc
- Apparent size v
- 1.40' × 1.25'
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 62.46
- Image
- NGC 0234 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2779466507690707968
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-10-14
- apparent magnitude
- 11.768
- galaxy morphological type
- SABc
- Commons category
- NGC 234
- redshift
- 0.014850
- right ascension
- 10.88492342173940
- declination
- 14.34260824234740
- radial velocity
- 4425
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 234 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on October 14, 1784, by William Herschel.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 234: SN 2021abze (type II, mag. 16.6).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035813” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.