NGC 284
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 284 is referenced by 952 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1886, Cetus and Discoveries by Francis Leavenworth.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 53 24.3
- Declination
- −13 ° 09 ′ 32 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 11,530 km/s
- Type
- E0-1
- Apparent size v
- 0.2' × 0.2'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0284 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- PGC 3132
- Commons category
- NGC 284
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 15
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- redshift
- 0.038460
- radial velocity
- 11456
- right ascension
- 13.375
- declination
- -13.150
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 284 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 2, 1886, by Francis Leavenworth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 284” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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