NGC 161
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 161 is referenced by 952 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1886, Cetus and Lenticular galaxies.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.020521234861485382
- Coordinates
- RA 8.8914° · Dec -2.8487°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 35 33.941
- Declination
- −02 ° 50 ′ 55.52 ″
- Distance
- 230 Mly (72 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 92,100 ly (28,240 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.3 ′ × 0.8 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 67.88
- Image
- NGC161 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- catalog code
- LEDA 2131
- declination
- -2.8487556
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-11-21
- apparent magnitude
- 9.954
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 161
- redshift
- 0.020311
- right ascension
- 8.8914208
- radial velocity
- 6089
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 161 is a lenticular galaxy in the Cetus constellation. It was discovered on November 21, 1886, by Lewis A. Swift.
Notes
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 161” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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