Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 56 52.4
- Declination
- −31 ° 57 ′ 47 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,615 km/s
- Type
- SB0
- Apparent size v
- 1.0' × 0.8'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Image
- NGC 314 DECam.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5030582085842032512
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-27
- redshift
- 0.018990
- apparent magnitude
- 10.701
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0a
- right ascension
- 14.21831822248040
- declination
- -31.96303998977500
- radial velocity
- 5639
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 314
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 314 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on September 27, 1834 by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 314” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.