NGC 107
| Galaxy NGC 107 |
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| SDSS image from NGC 107 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | whale |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 25 m 42.2 s |
| declination | -08 ° 16 ′ 58 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 142 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.020978 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 6289 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(284 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (87.1 ± 6.1) Mpc |
| diameter | ≈ 45500 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | OW v. Struve |
| Discovery date | January 14, 1866 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 107 • PGC 1606 • MCG -02-02-014 • IRAS F00231-0833 • 2MASX J00254218-0816580 • GC 5099 • GALEX ASC J002542.04-081657.5 • NVSS J002542-081701 | |
NGC 107 is a spiral galaxy from the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Cetus south of the ecliptic . It is an estimated 284 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 75,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 116 .
The object was discovered on January 14, 1866 by the German-Baltic astronomer Otto Wilhelm von Struve .
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