NGC 105

NGC 105 is a spiral galaxy estimated to be about 240 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1884 and its apparent magnitude is 14.1.^[4]

NGC 105
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 105 (center) and PGC 212515 (upper left)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Pisces
Right ascension	00h 25m 16.791s[1]
Declination	+12° 53′ 01.82″[1]
Redshift	0.017646[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	5290 km/s[2]
Distance	221.34 ± 34.29 Mly (67.864 ± 10.514 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	14.1[3]
Characteristics
Type	Sab:[2]
Size	83,700 ly (25,660 pc)[2][note 1]
Apparent size (V)	1.1′[2]
Other designations
IRAS 00226+1236, UGC 241, MCG +02-02-008, PGC 1583, CGCG 434-009[3]

Supernovae

Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 105:

• SN 1997cw (type Ia, mag. 16.5) was discovered by the BAO Supernova Survey on 10 July 1997.^[5][6]
• SN 2007A (type Ia, mag. 16) was discovered by Tim Puckett and Tom Orff, and independently discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS), on 2 January 2007.^[7][8]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

Notes

1. POSS1 103a-O values used.