Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 13 21 57.6
- Declination
- −36 ° 37 ′ 49 ″
- Redshift
- 468 ± 2 km / s
- Distance
- 12.1 ± 0.7 Mly (3.70 ± 0.23 Mpc )
- Type
- SA0
- Apparent size v
- 8.7 ′ × 2.8 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5102, also known as Iota's Ghost since it appears near Iota Centauri in the sky, is a lenticular galaxy in the Centaurus A/M83 Group of galaxies. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1835.
Distance measurements
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1116997” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.