NGC 81
Sign in to saveAlso known as New General Catalogue 81, NPM1G +22.0016, PGC 1352
galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 21 13.314
- Declination
- +22 ° 22 ′ 58.11 ″
- Distance
- 285 Mly (87 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.3 ′ × 0.15 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC81 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 81
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2800746563109622144
- discoverer or inventor
- Ralph Copeland
- time of discovery or invention
- 1873-11-15
- apparent magnitude
- 11.926
- galaxy morphological type
- S0/a?
- redshift
- 0.020447
- right ascension
- 5.30533994858980
- declination
- 22.38288058950310
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 81 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be about 270 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 81” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.