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NGC 108
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 25 59.73
- Declination
- 29 ° 12 ′ 43.4 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4737 km/s
- Distance
- 220 Mly (67 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 108 group (LGG 5)
- Type
- (R)SB0 (r)
- Apparent size v
- 2.7 ′ × 1.9 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0108 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.015841
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- catalog code
- UZC J002559.8+291243
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-11
- Commons category
- NGC 108
- right ascension
- 6.4987958
- declination
- 29.2120667
- radial velocity
- 4716
- apparent magnitude
- 9.281
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 108 is a barred lenticular galaxy that is located at approximately 220 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on September 11, 1784.
NGC 108 Group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 108” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.