NGC 106
| Galaxy NGC 106 |
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| SDSS image from NGC 106 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 24 m 43.7 s |
| declination | -05 ° 08 ′ 55 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sa? pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 100 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.020211 ± 0.000140 |
| Radial velocity | 6059 ± 42 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(274 ± 19) x 10 6 ly (84.1 ± 5.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Francis P. Leavenworth |
| Discovery date | 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 106 • PGC 1551 • 2MASX J00244375-0508557 • GALEX ASC J002443.76-050854.2 • LDCE 18 NED006 • NSA 126887 | |
NGC 106 is a spiral galaxy from the Hubble type Scd in the constellation fish on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 274 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 75,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered in 1886 by the American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth .
Web links
Commons : NGC 106 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
