Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 26 48.74910
- Declination
- +31 ° 42 ′ 11.9738 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6238 km/s
- Distance
- 282.78 ± 0.65 Mly (86.70 ± 0.2 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)bc?
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 112 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift on September 17, 1885. The galaxy lies approximately 295 million light-years from Earth, and is about 75,000 light-years in diameter.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q131829” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.