NGC 102
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galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 24 36.514
- Declination
- −13 ° 57 ′ 22.92 ″
- Distance
- 328.70 +63.86, −79.26 Mly , ( 100.78 +19.58, −24.30 Mpc )
- Type
- S0/a
- Apparent size v
- 1.0 ′ × 0.9 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 100.78
- Image
- NGC102 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-01-01
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- Commons category
- NGC 102
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2422981099682733056
- redshift
- 0.024450
- right ascension
- 6.15225896955440
- declination
- -13.95634704963070
- radial velocity
- 7330
- apparent magnitude
- 14.00
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 102 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be about 330 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by Francis Leavenworth in 1886 and its apparent magnitude is 14.
NGC 102 (2MASS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 102” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.