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NGC 12

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Also known as New General Catalogue 12

spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces

Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
00 08 44.752
Declination
+04 ° 36 ′ 45.12 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3886 ± 42 km/s
Distance
183 Mly
Type
SAB(rs)c:
Apparent size v
1.7 ′ × 1.35 ′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Pisces
Image
NGC12 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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Commons category
NGC 12
radial velocity
3934
catalog code
[HDL96] 408 63
galaxy morphological type
Sc
time of discovery or invention
1790-12-06
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
redshift
0.013049
apparent magnitude
10.275
right ascension
2.1864667
declination
4.6125333
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 12 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the Pisces constellation. It was discovered by William Herschel on December 6, 1790. The galaxy's magnitude is around 14.5, but have a very low surface brightness.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 12” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.