Q1036205
Sign in to savespiral 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
- Instance of
- intermediate spiral galaxy
- 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.