Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Cetus (Cet)  ·  Contains:  NGC 247
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NGC247, Andrew Lockwood
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NGC247

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NGC247

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NGC 247 is one of the Sculptor group of galaxies, with a recently revised distance from Cepheid variable observation of about 11 million light years. It's on the borderline between a normal spiral and a dwarf galaxy, but being relatively close gives us a good look at it. Of interest is the relatively star-poor region of stars in the northern spiral arm.

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NGC247, Andrew Lockwood

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