Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 26 48.74910
- Declination
- +31 ° 42 ′ 11.9738 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6238 km/s
- Distance
- 282.78 ± 0.65 Mly (86.70 ± 0.2 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)bc?
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 84.99
- Diameter
- 90000
- Image
- NGC112 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 112
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2862248364484524416
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-09-17
- redshift
- 0.022182
- apparent magnitude
- 10.795
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- right ascension
- 6.70312126442800
- declination
- 31.70332604285380
- radial velocity
- 6238
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NGC 112 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift on September 17, 1885. The galaxy lies approximately 295 million light-years from Earth, and is about 75,000 light-years in diameter.
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