Galaxy Evolution Explorer Spies Band of Stars · NASA · NASA — public domain
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Redshift
- z = 0.01564646416027249
- Morphology
- SBab
- Coordinates
- RA 15.8182° · Dec 22.3426°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 03 16.4
- Declination
- +22 ° 20 ′ 34 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,665 km/s
- Type
- SB
- Apparent size v
- 0.8' × 0.4'
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 354 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on October 24, 1881 by Édouard Stephan. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small, round, very small (faint) star involved, 14th magnitude star close to west."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 354” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.