NGC 331
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 331 is referenced by 952 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1886, Barred spiral galaxies and Cetus.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- G
- Coordinates
- RA 14.2658° · Dec -2.7575°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 47 06.8
- Declination
- −02 ° 43 ′ 52 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7,139 km/s
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 0.8' × 0.5'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0331 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- Commons category
- NGC 331
- catalog code
- LEDA 3406
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 15.15
- redshift
- 0.023813
- right ascension
- 14.26583
- epoch
- J2000.0
- declination
- -2.75750
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 331 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in 1886 by Francis Leavenworth. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, very small, round, a little brighter middle, 12th magnitude star 3 arcmin northeast." There are two candidates as to which object is NGC 331: PGC 2759 or PGC 3406, with the former being a much more likely candidate than the latter.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 331” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.