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Also known as New General Catalogue 106

galaxy in the constellation Pisces

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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 106 is referenced by 892 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1886, Discoveries by Francis Leavenworth and Lenticular galaxies.

Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
00 24 43.753
Declination
−05 ° 08 ′ 55.71 ″
Distance
199 Mly (61.1 Mpc )
Type
Sa: pec
Size
64,800 ly (19,880 pc )
Apparent size v
1.3 ′ × 0.6 ′

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Constellation
Pisces
Distance from Earth
58.45
Image
NGC106 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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discoverer or inventor
Francis Preserved Leavenworth
Commons category
NGC 106
catalog code
Gaia DR2 2527945221313642496
time of discovery or invention
1886-00-00
redshift
0.020211
right ascension
6.18226057352090
declination
-5.14873298499400
radial velocity
6059
apparent magnitude
14.46
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 106 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be about 270 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by Francis Leavenworth in 1886 and its apparent magnitude is 14.5.

Notes

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 106” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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