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- Object type
- Sy2
- Distance
- 4,560 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.0231593551296077
- Coordinates
- RA 14.2399° · Dec -43.8388°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 56 57.6
- Declination
- −43 ° 50 ′ 20 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6,943 km/s
- Type
- SAB(s)a:
- Apparent size v
- 1.0' × 0.8'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- intermediate spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Image
- NGC 319 DECam.png
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4982643512014137088
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-05
- apparent magnitude
- 11.090
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a:r
- redshift
- 0.023159
- right ascension
- 14.23993892946880
- declination
- -43.83876483135820
- radial velocity
- 6942
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.049
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.632
- Commons category
- NGC 319
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 319 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Phoenix. It was first discovered on September 5, 1834 by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 319” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.