Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 48 12.772
- Declination
- +27 ° 39 ′ 25.76 ″
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.65 ′ × 0.55 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 258.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2808959399573041408
- Commons category
- NGC 258
- time of discovery or invention
- 1848-12-22
- apparent magnitude
- 11.928
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- right ascension
- 12.05329700443490
- declination
- 27.65720737049030
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 258 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Andromeda constellation. It was discovered by George Stoner in 1848.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035913” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.