NGC 118
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irregular galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 27 16.222
- Declination
- −01 ° 46 ′ 48.50 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 10982 km/s
- Distance
- 524.5 ± 36.9 Mly (160.81 ± 11.30 Mpc )
- Type
- S(rs)a? pec
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0118 SDSS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 118
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2541099881506897024
- discoverer or inventor
- Wilhelm Tempel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1880-09-27
- redshift
- 0.037329
- apparent magnitude
- 10.354
- galaxy morphological type
- cG
- right ascension
- 6.81760295455690
- declination
- -1.78014430313390
- radial velocity
- 10982
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 118 is a spiral galaxy of type S(rs)a? pec with an apparent magnitude of 13.6 located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 23, 1867, by the astronomer Truman Safford.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 118” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.