Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 268
NGC0268, NGC 268, NGC268
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- Cet
- Right ascension
- 12.53983333°
- Declination
- -5.19372222°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 257215228.1432864 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 13.03
- Catalog source
- openngc_ngc_ic_catalog
- Catalog epoch
- J2000 catalog coordinates
- Position epoch
- J2000
- Selection caveat
- OpenNGC Pax is not treated as parallax for galaxies. Galactic classes never use Hubble-flow redshift or radial-velocity distance, and radial velocity alone is never converted to distance.
- Cosmology
- Not supplied by the source catalog