Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 52 06.6
- Declination
- −22 ° 40 ′ 49 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 14,038 km/s
- Distance
- 626 Mly
- Type
- SB
- Apparent size v
- 1.0' × 0.4'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0276 DSS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 276
- catalog code
- KOSS 004938.6-225710
- radial velocity
- 13517
- discoverer or inventor
- Frank Muller
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- redshift
- 0.046152
- apparent magnitude
- 11.210
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- SB...
- right ascension
- 13.0273708
- declination
- -22.6801861
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 276 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 626 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in 1886 by Frank Muller and was later also observed by DeLisle Stewart.
John Dreyer, creator of the New General Catalogue describes the object as "extremely faint, pretty small, extended 265°, 11 magnitude star 3 arcmin to north". The galaxy's right ascension was later corrected in the Index Catalogue using the observation data by Stewart.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 276” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.