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Q34747
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 00 09 53.411
- Declination
- +25 ° 55 ′ 25.46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,568 km/s
- Distance
- 173.5 Mly (53.21 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 23 Group (LGG 2)
- Apparent magnitude v
- 11.9 mag
- Type
- SBb
- Apparent size v
- 2.1′ × 1.3′
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 23 is a spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation of Pegasus, around 173.5 megalight-years distant from the Milky Way. It was discovered by William Herschel on 10 September 1784. In the Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook, the visual appearance of NGC 23 is described as follows:
Bright, extended ellipse; a bright nuclear structure is noticeably elongated; two weak spiral enhancements emerge from opposite sides of the nucleus, one curving towards a bright star attached on the south end. The galaxy is likely interacting with NGC 9.
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