NGC 155
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 155 is referenced by 952 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 151.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1886, Cetus and Discoveries by Lewis Swift.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.02065
- Morphology
- E1
- Coordinates
- RA 8.6670° · Dec -10.7665°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 34 40.113
- Declination
- −10 ° 45 ′ 59.35 ″
- Distance
- 248.37 ± 41.74 Mly (76.150 ± 12.799 Mpc )
- Type
- S0 pec
- Size
- 125,600 ly (38,510 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.38 ′ × 1.06 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 83.28
- Image
- NGC155 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 155
- right ascension
- 8.6670200
- declination
- -10.7665430
- redshift
- 0.02065
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2425421293941323264
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-09-01
- apparent magnitude
- 15.122
- radial velocity
- 6127
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 155 is a lenticular galaxy in the Cetus constellation. It was discovered on September 1, 1886, by Lewis A. Swift.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 155” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.