Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 02 25 42.397
- Declination
- +41 ° 57 ′ 22.59 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5598 km/s
- Distance
- 257.9 Mly (79.07 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 347
- Type
- E
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 78.16
- Image
- NGC 0911 DSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- catalog code
- LEDA 9221
- radial velocity
- 5514
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- time of discovery or invention
- 1878-10-30
- redshift
- 0.018850
- apparent magnitude
- 9.844
- right ascension
- 36.4266542
- declination
- 41.9562750
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 911
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 911 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda about 258 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on 30 October 1878. It is a member of the galaxy cluster Abell 347.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 911” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.