Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 57 14.8
- Declination
- −40 ° 57 ′ 33 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3,452 km/s
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.20' × 0.48'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Image
- NGC 324 DECam.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4987230575742216704
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-10-23
- redshift
- 0.011515
- apparent magnitude
- 9.893
- right ascension
- 14.31153177108350
- declination
- -40.95910908307220
- radial velocity
- 3432
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 324
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 324 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered on October 23, 1835, by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "questionable, faint, small, stellar".
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 324” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.