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Q517264
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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 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
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.