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NGC 147

elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia
Thing dwarf_spheroidal_galaxy Q493581

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
dwarf spheroidal galaxy, elliptical galaxy[3]
Part of
Local Group, [CHM2007] LDC 31, [TSK2008] 222[7][8][9]
Apparent magnitude
7.2 (7.2–12, n=5)
Catalog code
NGC 147, 2MASX J00331212+4830314, MCG+08-02-005, PGC 2004, UGC 326, UZC J003312.7+483036, Z 0030.4+4814, Z 550-6, DDO 3, LEDA 2004, Caldwell 17[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Companion of
NGC 185[11]
Constellation
Cassiopeia[4]
Declination
48.5087389 degree
Discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel[2]
Distance from Earth
2,200,000 light-year, 0.76 megaparsec
Epoch
J2000.0
Galaxy morphological type
dSph/dE5, dGspD...[5][6]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02_v2
Parent astronomical body
Andromeda Galaxy[10]
Radial velocity
-193 kilometre per second
Redshift
-0.000677, -0.000644
Right ascension
8.3005000 degree
Time of discovery or invention
September 8, 1829[23]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
NGC147.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/06m0pr
New General Catalogue ID
147
Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID
2004
SIMBAD ID
NGC 147
Topic's main category
Category:NGC 147
Uppsala General Catalogue ID
326
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Galaxy", "NGC147"]

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Summary

NGC 147 is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy[1].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . haroldcorwin.net. Retrieved . haroldcorwin.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . VizieR. wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Identifying Local Group field galaxies that have interacted with the Milky Way. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . SIMBAD. Retrieved . haroldcorwin.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). NGC 147. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/ngc-147
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ngc-147_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{NGC 147}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ngc-147}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}}
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