Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 57 55.3
- Declination
- −05 ° 07 ′ 50 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,468 km/s
- Apparent magnitude v
- 14.5b
- Type
- SBbc
- Apparent size v
- 1.6' × 0.7'
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 327 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1864 by Albert Marth. It is described by Dreyer as "faint, small, extended." It is nearby galaxies NGC 329, NGC 325 and NGC 321.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 327: SN 2021aclv (type Ia, mag. 17.3).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 327” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.