Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 52 30.2
- Declination
- +24 ° 21 ′ 02 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3,878 km/s
- Type
- S
- Apparent size v
- 1.7' × 1.1'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 155.60
- Image
- NGC280 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2804782767215871872
- Commons category
- NGC 280
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-12-05
- apparent magnitude
- 12.478
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- redshift
- 0.033707
- right ascension
- 13.12611067367590
- declination
- 24.35055820671830
- radial velocity
- 9984
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 280 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on December 5, 1785 by William Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 280” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.