NGC 109
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
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It sits within the topics Andromeda (constellation), Astronomical objects discovered in 1861 and Barred spiral galaxies.
Vinony links it to 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 26 14.636
- Declination
- +21 ° 48 ′ 26.64 ″
- Distance
- 216.40 ± 17.85 Mly (66.350 ± 5.473 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(r)a
- Size
- 81,800 ly (25,090 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.1 ′ × 1.0 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 73.55
- Image
- NGC 0109 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 1633
- time of discovery or invention
- 1861-10-08
- redshift
- 0.018393
- apparent magnitude
- 10.351
- galaxy morphological type
- SBa
- Commons category
- NGC 109
- right ascension
- 6.5609833
- declination
- 21.8074000
- radial velocity
- 5463
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 109 is a spiral galaxy estimated to be about 240 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest in 1861 and its magnitude is 13.7.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 109: SN 2019upw (type Ia, mag. 17.5).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 109” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.