Right ascension 00 14 30.6 Redshift 0.019013 Distance ~236 Mly (redshift) Magnitude 13.5 Apparent magnitude (V) 13.5 | Declination −07° 10′ 03″ Helio radial velocity 5700 ± 3 km/s Type SB(rs)bc | |
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Similar NGC 54, NGC 62, NGC 50, NGC 35, NGC 59 | ||
NGC 47 (also known as NGC 58, MCG -1-1-55, IRAS00119-0726 and PGC 967) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus, discovered in 1886 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel. Its alternate name NGC 58 is due to the observation by Lewis Swift, who was unaware that Tempel had already discovered the celestial object earlier. It appears as a small, faint spiral nebula with a bright core and is slightly oval.
It is approximately 236 Mly (236 million light years) from Earth, measured by way of a generic "redshift estimate".
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