Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 24 43.753
- Declination
- −05 ° 08 ′ 55.71 ″
- Distance
- 199 Mly (61.1 Mpc )
- Type
- Sa: pec
- Size
- 64,800 ly (19,880 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.3 ′ × 0.6 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 58.45
- Image
- NGC106 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- Commons category
- NGC 106
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2527945221313642496
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- redshift
- 0.020211
- right ascension
- 6.18226057352090
- declination
- -5.14873298499400
- radial velocity
- 6059
- apparent magnitude
- 14.46
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 106 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be about 270 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by Francis Leavenworth in 1886 and its apparent magnitude is 14.5.
Notes
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 106” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.