Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 50 09.5
- Declination
- −05 ° 11 ′ 37 ″
- Type
- SBbc
- Apparent size v
- 1.6' × 1.1'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 72.83
- Image
- NGC268 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 268
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2525505439372319104
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-11-22
- apparent magnitude
- 10.366
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- redshift
- 0.018153
- right ascension
- 12.53978199890340
- declination
- -5.19371207117070
- radial velocity
- 5515
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 268 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on November 22, 1785 by William Herschel.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035939” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.