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NGC 342
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 342 is referenced by 952 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1864, Cetus and Lenticular galaxies.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 14,489 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.019403
- Coordinates
- RA 15.2077° · Dec -6.7725°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 00 49.8
- Declination
- −06 ° 46 ′ 21 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,817 km/s
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.6' × 0.3'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 100.36
- Image
- NGC 0342 SDSS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 5817
- redshift
- 0.019403
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2476348782755011712
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-27
- apparent magnitude
- 10.509
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- Commons category
- NGC 342
- right ascension
- 15.20773583483080
- declination
- -6.77254291932650
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 342 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1864 by Albert Marth. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 342” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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