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Vinony's link graph records 952 inbound references to NGC 353, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1885, Barred spiral galaxies and Cetus.

Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 02 24.5
Declination
−01 ° 57 ′ 32 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4,108 km/s
Type
SBa
Apparent size v
1.3' × 0.4'

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
55.88
Image
NGC353 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 3714
discoverer or inventor
Lewis A. Swift
time of discovery or invention
1885-11-10
redshift
0.016011
apparent magnitude
10.609
galaxy morphological type
SBab
Commons category
NGC 353
right ascension
15.6022625
declination
-1.9590556
radial velocity
4137
epoch
J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 353 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on November 10, 1885 by Lewis Swift. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, pretty small, round, southeastern of 2.", the other being NGC 351.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 353” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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