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NGC 16
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 00 09 04.3
- Declination
- +27 ° 43 ′ 45 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3100 ± 17 km/s
- Absolute magnitude v
- − 20.62
- Type
- SAB0
- Apparent size v
- 1.8 ′ × 1.0 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 37.8
- Image
- NGC16 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- epoch
- J2000.0
- redshift
- 0.010214
- catalog code
- LEDA 660
- Commons category
- NGC 16
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-08
- apparent magnitude
- 8.784
- right ascension
- 2.2679167
- declination
- 27.7294528
- radial velocity
- 3046
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 16 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Pegasus constellation. It was discovered on September 8, 1784, by William Herschel.
In the Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook, the visual appearance of NGC 16 is described as follows:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 16” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.