Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.025945
- Coordinates
- RA 14.1735° · Dec -52.9759°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 56 41.6
- Declination
- −52 ° 58 ′ 33 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7,779 km/s
- Type
- E0
- Apparent size v
- 1.0' × 1.0'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 104.3
- Image
- NGC 0323 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- APMBGC 151+093-096
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-10-03
- redshift
- 0.025948
- apparent magnitude
- 9.447
- right ascension
- 14.1735458
- declination
- -52.9759056
- radial velocity
- 7677
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 323
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 323 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered on October 3, 1834, by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "pretty faint, small, round, brighter middle, preceding (western) of 2", the other being NGC 328.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 323” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.