Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02 22 43.574
- Declination
- −08 ° 43 ′ 08.46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 13333 km/s
- Distance
- 644.8 ± 45.2 Mly (197.70 ± 13.85 Mpc )
- Type
- S0-a
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- Image
- NGC 0905 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- catalog code
- LEDA 9038
- apparent magnitude
- 14.660
- galaxy morphological type
- S0-a
- Commons category
- NGC 905
- right ascension
- 35.6814917
- declination
- -8.7189167
- radial velocity
- 13311
- redshift
- 0.04551
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NGC 905 is a lenticular galaxy with an active nucleus in the constellation Cetus south. It is estimated to be 644 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 85,000 ly. NGC 905 was discovered by astronomer Francis Leavenworth.
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