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Also known as New General Catalogue 120, MCG 0-2-33, ZWG 383.17

lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
00 27 30.09072
Declination
−01 ° 30 ′ 48.4591 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4057 km/s
Distance
168.0 Mly (51.52 Mpc )
Type
SB0 :

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
52.67
Image
NGC 0120 SDSS.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 2541140391639730304
galaxy morphological type
S0
discoverer or inventor
Wilhelm Tempel
time of discovery or invention
1880-09-27
redshift
0.013446
apparent magnitude
9.954
right ascension
6.87537799779150
declination
-1.51346086858250
radial velocity
4084
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 120
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 120 is a lenticular galaxy of type SB0? with an apparent magnitude of 13.4 located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on 27 September 1880 by Wilhelm Tempel.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 120” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.