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NGC 105
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 25 16.791
- Declination
- +12 ° 53 ′ 01.82 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5290 km/s
- Distance
- 221.34 ± 34.29 Mly (67.864 ± 10.514 Mpc )
- Type
- Sab:
- Size
- 83,700 ly (25,660 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.1 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 105 is a spiral galaxy estimated to be about 240 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1884 and its apparent magnitude is 14.1.
Supernovae
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 105” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.