Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 08 23.4
- Declination
- +33 ° 08 ′ 01 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,692 km/s
- Type
- S0 :
- Apparent size v
- 1.2' × 0.9'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 392 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on September 12, 1784, by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, very small, round, much brighter middle, between 2 stars."
One supernova has been observed in NGC 392: SN 2020orw (type Ia, mag. 17.4).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 392” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.