Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.019823356240012746
- Coordinates
- RA 15.7796° · Dec -6.9883°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 03 07.1
- Declination
- −06 ° 59 ′ 18 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,891 km/s
- Type
- SABbc
- Apparent size v
- 1.5' × 0.8'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 356 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1864 by Albert Marth. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, small, irregularly round."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 356” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.