NGC 903
| Galaxy NGC 903 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Aries |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 02 h 24 m 00.9 s |
| declination | + 27 ° 21 ′ 23 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.5 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 175 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.016818 ± 0.000067 |
| Radial velocity | (5042 ± 20) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(230 ± 16) x 10 6 ly (70.4 ± 4.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Edouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | December 13, 1884 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 903 • UGC 1852 NOTES01 • PGC 9097 • 2MASX J02240089 + 2721229 • LEDA 9097 • GALEX ASC J022400.85 + 272124.2 | |
NGC 903 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Aries north of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 230 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 35,000 ly. a. the galaxies NGC 904 , NGC 915 , NGC 916 , NGC 919 .
The object was on 13 December 1884 by the astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80-cm - telescope discovered.
Web links
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