Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 43 27.8
- Declination
- −00 ° 07 ′ 30 ″
- Type
- SAB(rs)cd
- Apparent size v
- 1.6' × 0.9'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 55.88
- Image
- NGC237-hst-R190GB160.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 237
- catalog code
- LEDA 2597
- discoverer or inventor
- Truman Henry Safford
- time of discovery or invention
- 1867-09-27
- redshift
- 0.013926
- galaxy morphological type
- SBc
- apparent magnitude
- 12.439
- right ascension
- 10.8661708
- declination
- -0.1248667
- radial velocity
- 4174
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 237 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1867 by Truman Safford.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035831” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.