NGC 321
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.016161180412350467
- Coordinates
- RA 14.4135° · Dec -5.0862°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 57 39.23461
- Declination
- −05 ° 05 ′ 10.1616 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4806 km/s
- Type
- E
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC321 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 321
- radial velocity
- 4832
- right ascension
- 14.41347755947310
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2524760142287110528
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-27
- redshift
- 0.016163
- apparent magnitude
- 13.731
- declination
- -5.08615599921850
- galaxy morphological type
- SBcd
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 321 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1864, by the astronomer Albert Marth. Measurements of its redshift put it at a distance of about 217.4 ± 15.4 megalight-years (66.67 ± 4.73 Mpc), assuming a Hubble constant of H0 = 67.8 km/sec/Mpc.
A fictional star cluster with the same designation was the location of the planet Eminiar VII in the original series Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 321” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.