Q755154
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 18 20.49510
- Declination
- +30 ° 02 ′ 23.8402 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6607 km/s
- Distance
- 305.6 ± 21.5 Mly (93.70 ± 6.58 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 68 group
- Type
- SB0 (s)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC69 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 6754
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2860586418299406336
- Commons category
- NGC 69
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- redshift
- 0.022529
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1855-10-07
- apparent magnitude
- 13.864
- right ascension
- 4.58539624829260
- declination
- 30.03995561286500
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 69 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It is a member of the NGC 68 group. It was discovered in 1855 by R. J. Mitchell, who described it as "extremely faint, very small, round."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q755154” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.