NGC 126
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.013966328665946628
- Coordinates
- RA 7.2837° · Dec 2.8111°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 29 08.1
- Declination
- +01 ° 48 ′ 40 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4047 km/s
- Type
- SB0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC126 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2547810819448114688
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1850-11-04
- apparent magnitude
- 13.238
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- Commons category
- NGC 126
- redshift
- 0.014183
- right ascension
- 7.28369358105190
- declination
- 2.81105538284120
- radial velocity
- 4422
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 126 is a lenticular galaxy that was discovered on November 4, 1850, by Bindon Stoney, the very same day he discovered NGC 127 and NGC 130.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 126” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.