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NGC 63
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 17 45.54685
- Declination
- +11 ° 27 ′ 01.0220 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1162 km/s
- Distance
- 60.73 ± 0.39 Mly (18.62 ± 0.12 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 63 Group (LGG 3)
- Type
- S pec
- Size
- ~36,400 ly (11.17 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.7′ × 1.1′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 18.71
- Image
- NGC63 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 1162
- catalog code
- LEDA 1160
- Commons category
- NGC 63
- redshift
- 0.003896
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-08-27
- apparent magnitude
- 9.257
- right ascension
- 4.43977852260340
- declination
- 11.45028388811190
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 63 is a peculiar spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. NGC 63 is its New General Catalogue designation. The galaxy was discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on 27 August 1865. It has an apparent V-band magnitude of 12.70.
NGC 63 is part of the group of galaxies that bears its name. The NGC 63 group (also known as LGG 3) includes at least two other galaxies: UGC 156 and UGC 191.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 63” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.