NGC 101

Also known as New General Catalogue 101

spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor

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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 101 is referenced by 836 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1834, Discoveries by John Herschel and Intermediate spiral galaxies.

Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation: Sculptor
Right ascension: 00 23 54.614
Declination: −32 ° 32 ′ 10.34 ″
Distance: 149.8 Mly (45.92 Mpc )
Type: SAB(rs)cd:
Size: 119,200 ly (36,560 pc )
Apparent size v: 2.2 ′ × 2.0 ′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation: Sculptor
Distance from Earth: 45.92
Image: NGC 101 ESO.jpg

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galaxy morphological type: Sc
discoverer or inventor: John Frederick William Herschel
Commons category: NGC 101
catalog code: APMBGC 350+030-123
time of discovery or invention: 1834-09-25
redshift: 0.011341
apparent magnitude: 10.199
right ascension: 5.9775583
declination: -32.5362056
radial velocity: 3383
epoch: J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 101 is a spiral galaxy estimated to be about 150 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1834 and its magnitude is 12.8. It is a member of the Southern Supercluster (also called the Laniakea Supercluster) the closest galaxy supercluster to the Local Supercluster.

Notes

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 101” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.