NGC 117

NGC 117 is a lenticular galaxy with a magnitude of 14.3 in the constellation Cetus. NGC 117 is its New General Catalogue designation. It was discovered on September 13, 1863, by the astronomer Albert Marth.^[5]

NGC 117
SDSS image of NGC 117
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	00h 27m 11.14s[1]
Declination	+01° 20′ 00.5″[1]
Redshift	0.017972[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	5339 ± 35 km/s[2]
Distance	234.9 Mly (72.02 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	15.41[1]
Characteristics
Type	S0+:[4]
Other designations
MCG +00-02-029, PGC 1674[2]

See also

• List of NGC objects

References

1. "Search specification: NGC 117". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
2. "NGC 117". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
3. Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 655 (2): 790–813. arXiv:astro-ph/0610732. Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C. doi:10.1086/510201. S2CID 11672751.
4. "Results for object NGC 0117 (NGC 117)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
5. Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 100 - 149". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2021-02-23.

External links

• Media related to NGC 117 at Wikimedia Commons