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NGC 175 in Cetus
Date ................ December 8, 2020 |
NGC 175 in Cetus is located just to the southwest of Diphda, or β Ceti,
not very far from NGC 247, a bright spiral galaxy south of Diphda which is
in the nearby Sculptor galaxy group. This made me wonder if NGC 175 was
a part of the Sculptor group. The wikipedia
page on NGC 171 (which is the same
object as NGC 175) cites a distance of 3 million light years to it, but that
seems ridiculous, and it turns out that every other source I have seen, such as
wikidata (scroll down to
distance) cite around 170 million light years. This object was difficult to see. I noted it as faint, no structure, no concentration; the position of two field stars making a triangle with it gave me confidence that I was looking at the correct spot and seeing it; I used 76x to observe it. |