NGC 101
| Galaxy NGC 101 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | sculptor |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 23 m 54.6 s |
| declination | -32 ° 32 ′ 10 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 2 ′ |
| Position angle | 89 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.011321 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 3375 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(151 ± 10) · 10 6 ly (46.2 ± 3.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | September 25, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 101 • PGC 1518 • ESO 350-014 • MCG -05-02-003 • IRAS 00214-3248 • 2MASX J00235461-3232103 • SGC 002125-3248.8 • GC 50 • h 2321 • HIPASS J0024-32 • 2MIG 44 | |
NGC 101 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Sculptor in the southern sky . It is around 151 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 95,000 ly.
The object was discovered on September 25, 1834 by the British astronomer John Herschel .