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 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- 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
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 6.917
- right ascension
- 200.49003880580690
- declination
- -36.63010712616900
- parallax
- 0.2652
- radial velocity
- 420
- epoch
- J2000.0
- 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.