NGC 221

M32 · NGC 221

NGC 221 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. At magnitude 8.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
8.1
apparent magnitude
-205 km/s
receding (RC3)
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.

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