NGC 937
| Galaxy NGC 937 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 02 h 29 m 28.1 s |
| declination | + 42 ° 15 '00 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.10 × 0.5 |
| Position angle | 117 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018783 +/- 0.000050 |
| Radial velocity | 5631 +/- 15 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(257 ± 18) x 10 6 ly (78.9 ± 5.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Edouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | December 12, 1884 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 937 • UGC 1961 • PGC 9480 • CGCG 539-032 • MCG + 07-06-024 • USGC U120 NED03 | |
NGC 937 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Andromeda in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 257 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 80,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 911 , NGC 914 , NGC 923 , NGC 946 , among others .
The object was discovered by Edouard Stephan on December 12, 1884 .