Q870210
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus
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 “Q870210” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.