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NGC 113

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Also known as New General Catalogue 113, MCG-1-2-16

lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.014497
Morphology
E-S0
Coordinates
RA 6.7277° · Dec -2.5009°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
00 26 54.626
Declination
−02 ° 30 ′ 03.02 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4315 km/s
Distance
154.0 Mly (47.21 Mpc )
Type
SA0 :

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
50.52
Image
NGC 0113 SDSS.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 1656
discoverer or inventor
Wilhelm Tempel
time of discovery or invention
1876-08-27
galaxy morphological type
E-S0
apparent magnitude
9.855
redshift
0.014497
Commons category
NGC 113
right ascension
6.7276083
declination
-2.5008389
radial velocity
4315
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 113 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered by German astronomer, Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel, on August 27, 1876.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 113” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.