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NGC 94

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Short description: Lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
NGC 94
SDSS image of NGC 94
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationAndromeda
Right ascension 00h 22m 13.516s[1]
Declination+22° 28′ 59.22″[1]
Redshift0.019604[2]
Helio radial velocity5877[2]
Distance260 Mly (80 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)15.6[3]
Characteristics
TypeS0[4]
Size50,000 ly (15,000 pc)[4]
Apparent size (V)0.45′ × 0.4′[4]
Other designations
PGC 1423[3]

NGC 94 (PGC 1423) is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan in 1884. This object is extremely faint and small. A little above the galaxy is NGC 96. NGC 94 is about 260 million light-years away and 50,000 light-years across.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....131.1163S/abstract. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NED results for object NGC 0094". National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=NGC+94&extend=no&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "NGC 94". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+94. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Seligman, Courtney. "Celestial Atlas NGC Objects: NGC 77". http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc0a.htm#77. 



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