NGC 891

NGC 891

NGC 891 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. At magnitude 10.0 it is within reach of 4-6" (100-150 mm) telescope.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
10.0
apparent magnitude
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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