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Q205742
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 17 30.368
- Declination
- −06 ° 49 ′ 28.69 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7312 ± 9 km/s
- Type
- SB(s)bc
- Apparent size v
- 1.5' × 1.1'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 108.14
- Image
- NGC64 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- Commons category
- NGC 64
- catalog code
- [SLK2004] 38
- redshift
- 0.024685
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-10-21
- apparent magnitude
- 10.286
- galaxy morphological type
- 4
- right ascension
- 4.3765333
- declination
- -6.8246361
- radial velocity
- 7309
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 64 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Lewis Swift in 1886, and is located in the Cetus constellation.
NGC 64 (near-infrared)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q205742” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.