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NGC 43
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 13 00.7647
- Declination
- +30 ° 54 ′ 54.901 ″
- Redshift
- 0.015 961 ± 0.000 033
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,785 ± 10 km/s
- Distance
- 65.0 ± 4.6 Mpc (212 ± 15.1 million ly )
- Type
- SB0
- Size
- ~122,300 ly (37.50 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.6′ × 1.5′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 64.94
- Image
- NGC43 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2861540450795210368
- Commons category
- NGC 43
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-11-11
- redshift
- 0.015961
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- apparent magnitude
- 9.450
- right ascension
- 3.25322280606380
- declination
- 30.91523781403920
- radial velocity
- 4740
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 43 is a lenticular galaxy in the Andromeda constellation. It has a diameter of approximately 37 kiloparsecs (122,000 light-years). It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 11 November 1827.
NGC 7831 Group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 43” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.