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NGC 87
Sign in to saveAlso known as PGC 1374, Robert's Quartet 1, ESO 194-8, AM 0018-485, PGC 1357, New General Catalogue 87
irregular galaxy in the constellation Phoenix
Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 21 14.2133
- Declination
- −48 ° 37 ′ 42.81 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3415 ± 23 km/s
- Distance
- 154.7 ± 11.0 Mly (47.44 ± 3.36 Mpc )
- Type
- IBm pec
- Size
- ~51,500 ly (15.80 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.9 ′ × 0.7 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- irregular galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 160000000
- Image
- Phot-34a-05-fullres.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 87
- catalog code
- APMBGC 194+100-062
- redshift
- 0.011645
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-30
- apparent magnitude
- 13.527
- galaxy morphological type
- Ir
- right ascension
- 5.3085917
- declination
- -48.6300778
- radial velocity
- 3525
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 87 is a diffuse, highly disorganized barred irregular galaxy, part of Robert's Quartet, a group of four interacting galaxies.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 87: SN 1994Z (type II, mag. 14.6) was discovered Alexander Wassilieff on 2 October 1994.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 87” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.