NGC 120
Sign in to saveAlso 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 :
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- 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.