NGC 27
| Galaxy NGC 27 |
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| NGC 27 & PGC 731 SDSS image | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 10 m 32.8 s |
| declination | + 28 ° 59 ′ 46 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 117.8 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023460 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 7033 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(322 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (98.7 ± 6.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis A. Swift |
| Discovery date | August 3, 1884 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 27 • UGC 96 • PGC 742 • CGCG 499-063 • MCG + 05-01-44 • IRAS 00079 + 2843 • 2MASX J00103277 + 2859464 • KCPG 3B • Swift I • LDCE 12 NED001 | |
NGC 27 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Pegasus at the northern sky . It is an estimated 213 million light years from the Milky Way and about 130,000 light years in diameter . It probably forms a bound galaxy pair with PGC 731 .
The object was discovered on August 3, 1884 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift .
Web links
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