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Q517264

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EntityQ517264· pop 39· linked from 893 articles

Also known as New General Catalogue 99, PGC 1523

spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces

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Vinony's link graph records 893 inbound references to Q517264, and connects out to Q204624, list of NGC objects (1–1000) and epoch.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1883, Discoveries by Édouard Stephan and NGC objects.

Vinony links it to 38 Wikipedia language editions.

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 ′

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Wikidata facts

Distance from Earth
77
Image
NGC99 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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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
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 “Q517264” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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