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NGC 99
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 23 59.422
- Declination
- +15 ° 46 ′ 13.04 ″
- Distance
- 29.1 Mpc (95 Mly )
- Type
- Scd
- Size
- 41,000 ly (12,700 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.5 ′ × 1.5 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 77
- Image
- NGC99 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1883-10-08
- Commons category
- NGC 99
- redshift
- 0.017752
- right ascension
- 5.9975917
- declination
- 15.7702889
- radial velocity
- 5274
- apparent magnitude
- 13.328
- catalog code
- Z 0021.4+1530
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- 6
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 99 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on 8 October 1883 by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 99” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.