Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02 09 38.562
- Declination
- −10 ° 08 ′ 46.12 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3825 ± 3 km/s
- Distance
- 167.5 Mly (51.37 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(rs)0 pec:
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 51.37
- Image
- NGC 0838 fusion.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 838
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-11-28
- companion of
- Q1039599
- catalog code
- LEDA 8250
- redshift
- 0.012872
- galaxy morphological type
- -1
- apparent magnitude
- 12.294
- right ascension
- 32.4106770
- declination
- -10.1461450
- radial velocity
- 3825
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 838 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy located at approximately 170 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. It is part of the Hickson Compact Group 16.
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