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M77

Cetus A or Squid Galaxy · NGC 1068

Constellation
Cetus
Shape
Spiral
Magnitude
8.8
Size
6.9′
Position
2h 43m, −0.0°
Distance
56.2 ± 12.5 million ly

My Sky

Rise, highest and set over your place, for any night: M77

Further info

NASA: Messier 77

NED: M77

SIMBAD: M77

Wikipedia: Messier 77

Sources

Distance: NED-D (Steer 2020)

Magnitude and size: NGC 2000.0 (Sinnott 1988)

Shape: RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991)

Name: Wikipedia, List of Messier objects

M77, NGC 1068
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker