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NGC 94
Sign in to saveAlso known as New General Catalogue 94, ZWG 479.17, PGC 1423
galaxy pair in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 22 13.516
- Declination
- +22 ° 28 ′ 59.22 ″
- Distance
- 260 Mly (80 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 50,000 ly (15,000 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 0.45 ′ × 0.4 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 94 (PGC 1423) is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan in 1884. This object is extremely faint and small. A little above the galaxy is NGC 96. NGC 94 is about 260 million light-years away and 50,000 light-years across.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 94” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.