Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 56 32.6
- Declination
- −01 ° 46 ′ 19 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,010 km/s
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.6' × 0.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 44.50
- Image
- NGC 0307 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2535585482805238144
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1831-09-06
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- apparent magnitude
- 11.920
- Commons category
- NGC 307
- redshift
- 0.013336
- right ascension
- 14.13567075777630
- declination
- -1.77199137005600
- radial velocity
- 3971
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 307 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 6, 1831 by John Herschel.
Supernova
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 307” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.