NGC 286
Sign in to savelenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 286 is referenced by 952 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1886, Cetus and Discoveries by Francis Leavenworth.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 53 30.4
- Declination
- −13 ° 06 ′ 46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 10,876 km/s
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.3' × 0.9'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 102.86
- Image
- NGC 0286 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- PRC C-4
- Commons category
- NGC 286
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 11.019
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- redshift
- 0.036278
- right ascension
- 13.3763667
- declination
- -13.1128194
- radial velocity
- 10876
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 286 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 2, 1886 by Francis Leavenworth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 286” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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