Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 42 27.2
- Declination
- −23 ° 37 ′ 44 ″
- Type
- Sa
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 0.2'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 127.06
- Image
- NGC 0230 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- DUGRS 474-010
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 11.264
- epoch
- J2000.0
- redshift
- 0.020800
- right ascension
- 10.6132958
- declination
- -23.6288056
- radial velocity
- 6759
- Commons category
- NGC 230
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 230 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in 1886 by Francis Leavenworth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 230” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.