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Vinony's link graph records 509 inbound references to Q1116997, and connects out to Alpha Centauri, NGC 5090 and NGC 5091 and Centaurus.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1835, Centaurus and Centaurus A/M83 Group.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 13 21 57.6
- Declination
- −36 ° 37 ′ 49 ″
- Redshift
- 468 ± 2 km / s
- Distance
- 12.1 ± 0.7 Mly (3.70 ± 0.23 Mpc )
- Type
- SA0
- Apparent size v
- 8.7 ′ × 2.8 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 3.40
- Image
- NGC 5102 2MASS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6165703218750983296
- galaxy morphological type
- SA0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-01-01
- Commons category
- NGC 5102
- redshift
- 0.001558
- apparent magnitude
- 6.917
- right ascension
- 200.49003880580690
- declination
- -36.63010712616900
- parallax
- 0.2652
- radial velocity
- 420
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.503
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.598
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5102, also known as Iota's Ghost since it appears near Iota Centauri in the sky, is a lenticular galaxy in the Centaurus A/M83 Group of galaxies. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1835.
Distance measurements
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1116997” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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