NGC 285
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It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1886, Cetus and Discoveries by Francis Leavenworth.
Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 53 29.9
- Declination
- −13 ° 09 ′ 39 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 11,385 km/s
- Type
- (R'?)S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.7' × 0.7'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0285 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2373222013772929792
- Commons category
- NGC 285
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- galaxy morphological type
- E-S0
- epoch
- J2000.0
- apparent magnitude
- 10.727
- redshift
- 0.037976
- right ascension
- 13.37446007984760
- declination
- -13.16075955813190
- radial velocity
- 11385
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 285 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 2, 1886, by Francis Leavenworth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 285” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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