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Also known as New General Catalogue 120, MCG 0-2-33, ZWG 383.17

lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
00 27 30.09072
Declination
−01 ° 30 ′ 48.4591 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4057 km/s
Distance
168.0 Mly (51.52 Mpc )
Type
SB0 :

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 120 is a lenticular galaxy of type SB0? with an apparent magnitude of 13.4 located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on 27 September 1880 by Wilhelm Tempel.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 120” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.