NGC 125
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 28 50.206
- Declination
- +02 ° 50 ′ 20.06 ″
- Redshift
- 0.017 722
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5266 km/s
- Type
- (R)SA0+P
- Apparent size v
- 1.70 ′ x 1.5 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 71.24
- Image
- NGC 0125 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- LEDA 1772
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-12-25
- Commons category
- NGC 125
- right ascension
- 7.2091917
- declination
- 2.8389056
- redshift
- 0.017722
- apparent magnitude
- 14.2
- radial velocity
- 5266
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 125 (also known as PGC 1772) is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It is designated as subclass Sa Ring in the galaxy morphological classification scheme. It lies approximately 235 million light-years away.
NGC 125 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on 25 December 1790 and viewed with a reflecting telescope with an aperture of 18.7 inches. At the time of discovery, its coordinates were recorded as 00h 21m 41s, +87° 56.1′ -20.0″. It was also observed 12 October 1827 by John Herschel. Dreyer described NGC 125 as "very faint" and "small", with a "brighter middle". It is about 115 thousand light-years across, making it slightly larger than the Milky Way galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 125” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.