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NGC 12
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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 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
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.