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EntityQ1036205· pop 35· linked from 952 articles

spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
EmG
Redshift
z = 0.056904853463003
Morphology
S
Coordinates
RA 14.6002° · Dec -23.2249°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
00 58 23.9
Declination
−23 ° 13 ′ 31 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
16,575 km/s
Type
Sc
Apparent size v
0.72' × 0.26'

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Cetus
Image
NGC 343 DECam.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 2346040643225276800
discoverer or inventor
Frank Muller
time of discovery or invention
1886-00-00
apparent magnitude
11.920
galaxy morphological type
S
redshift
0.055288
right ascension
14.60016087807200
declination
-23.22488029151600
radial velocity
16575
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 343
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 343 are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in 1886 by Frank Muller. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, very small, irregularly round, suddenly brighter middle and nucleus (perhaps a star?)."

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036205” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.