Cosmic Atlas object record

WLM

WLM

WLM
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Object type
galaxy
Constellation
Not supplied by the source catalog
Right ascension
0.4920833°
Declination
-15.4611111°
Reference frame
J2000 equatorial coordinates transformed to heliocentric ecliptic Cartesian coordinates
Distance
3163716.86416241 ly
Distance kind
literature_distance
Uncertainty
["TRGB"]
Apparent magnitude
11.03
Catalog source
curated_extragalactic_survey
Catalog epoch
J2000 catalog coordinates
Position epoch
J2000
Selection caveat
A literature compilation of nearby galaxies, not a uniform all-sky volume-limited survey.
Cosmology
Not supplied by the source catalog

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