Q862666
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Sculptor
Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 34 15.5
- Declination
- −31 ° 47 ′ 10 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1516 km/s
- Distance
- 85.56 M ly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.463' x 0.556'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 20.51
- Image
- NGC 148 DECam.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2317220927337286016
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-27
- redshift
- 0.005057
- apparent magnitude
- 9.055
- right ascension
- 8.56457403047230
- declination
- -31.78600195780140
- radial velocity
- 1684
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 148
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 148 (also known as PGC 2035) is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Sculptor. It is about 40,000 light years across. It is in a group of three galaxies along with MCG-5-2-16 and IC 1555. It is a Shapley-Ames galaxy.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q862666” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.