Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 53 29.9
- Declination
- −08 ° 46 ′ 04 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,705 km/s
- Apparent magnitude v
- 14.5g
- Type
- SBa
- Apparent size v
- 1.22' × 0.49'
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 291 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1864, by Albert Marth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 291” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.