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'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 73.40
- Image
- NGC 0327 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- SDSS J005755.36-050749.6
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-27
- redshift
- 0.018283
- apparent magnitude
- 12.427
- radial velocity
- 5431
- galaxy morphological type
- 4
- Commons category
- NGC 327
- right ascension
- 14.4806690
- declination
- -5.1304610
- epoch
- J2000.0
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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.