NGC 96
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 22 17.697
- Declination
- +22 ° 32 ′ 46.24 ″
- Distance
- 290 Mly (89 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 39,400 ly (12,090 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 0.5 ′ × 0.5 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy group
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0096 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2800708629958504064
- Commons category
- NGC 96
- discoverer or inventor
- Guillaume Bigourdan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-10-24
- apparent magnitude
- 10.986
- galaxy morphological type
- -3.1
- redshift
- 0.020577
- right ascension
- 5.57383404738430
- declination
- 22.54630765418020
- radial velocity
- 6185
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 96 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be about 290 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan in 1884 and its apparent magnitude is 17.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 96” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.