Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.024494
- Coordinates
- RA 14.2397° · Dec -52.9239°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 56 57.6
- Declination
- −52 ° 55 ′ 26 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7,343 km/s
- Type
- SBa
- Apparent size v
- 2.7′ × 0.5′
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Wikidata facts
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4921307466311934976
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1836-09-05
- redshift
- 0.024494
- apparent magnitude
- 9.974
- Commons category
- NGC 328
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- right ascension
- 14.23974824544260
- declination
- -52.92388504040890
- radial velocity
- 7253
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 328 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered on 5 September 1836 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, a little extended, very gradually brighter middle, following (eastern) of 2", the other being NGC 323.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 328” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.