NGC 166
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 35 48.8
- Declination
- −13 ° 36 ′ 38 ″
- Type
- Sa
- Apparent size v
- 0.9' × 0.3'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 166 DECam.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- catalog code
- LEDA 2143
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 11.166
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- redshift
- 0.020084
- right ascension
- 8.9532958
- declination
- -13.6106472
- radial velocity
- 6021
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 166
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 166 (also known as PGC 2143) is a spiral galaxy located around 2.6 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, with an apparent magnitude of 15.18. It was discovered by Francis Preserved Leavenworth in 1886.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 166” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.