Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 53 29.9
- Declination
- −08 ° 46 ′ 04 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,705 km/s
- Apparent magnitude v
- 14.5g
- Type
- SBa
- Apparent size v
- 1.22' × 0.49'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 80
- Image
- NGC 0291 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- PBC J0053.2-0844
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-27
- redshift
- 0.018996
- apparent magnitude
- 12.898
- galaxy morphological type
- 1
- Commons category
- NGC 291
- right ascension
- 13.3747125
- declination
- -8.7676333
- radial velocity
- 5636
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 291 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1864, by Albert Marth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 291” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.