Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 55 21.533
- Declination
- +31 ° 40 ′ 38.21 ″
- Type
- Sc
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- low-surface-brightness galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 48.5
- Image
- NGC295 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 5591
- catalog code
- LEDA 3274
- redshift
- 0.018826
- apparent magnitude
- 11.864
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- Commons category
- NGC 296
- right ascension
- 13.8397208
- declination
- 31.6772806
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 296 is a low surface brightness unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Pisces. The designation NGC 295 is sometimes mistakenly used for NGC 296.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 296: SN 2023lzn (type II, mag. 18.5).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 296” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.