NGC 165
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 36 28.902
- Declination
- −10 ° 06 ′ 22.36 ″
- Distance
- 268.51 ± 8.18 Mly (82.325 ± 2.508 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)bc
- Apparent size v
- 1.6 ′ × 1.3 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 82.79
- Image
- NGC 0165 SDSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Wilhelm Tempel
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2426034546551102720
- time of discovery or invention
- 1882-00-00
- Commons category
- NGC 165
- redshift
- 0.019617
- right ascension
- 9.12054847750390
- declination
- -10.10597150236710
- radial velocity
- 5833
- apparent magnitude
- 12.451
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- 5
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 165 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in 1882 by Wilhelm Tempel and was described by as "faint, large, star in centre, eastern of 2" by John Louis Emil Dreyer.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 165: SN 2021acnz (type Ib, mag. 19.2).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 165” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.