NGC 107
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 25 42.185
- Declination
- −08 ° 16 ′ 58.07 ″
- Type
- Sbc
- Size
- 48,100 ly (14,750 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 0.6 ′ × 0.5 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC107 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 107
- catalog code
- LEDA 1606
- discoverer or inventor
- Otto Wilhelm von Struve
- time of discovery or invention
- 1866-01-14
- redshift
- 0.020978
- right ascension
- 6.4257708
- declination
- -8.2827972
- radial velocity
- 6289
- apparent magnitude
- 15.03
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 107 is a spiral galaxy estimated to be about 280 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by Otto Struve in 1866 and its magnitude is 14.2.
Notes
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 107” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.