Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 57 10.0
- Declination
- −43 ° 43 ′ 37 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7,126 km/s
- Distance
- 318 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 0.6'
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 98.97
- Image
- NGC 322 DECam.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 3412
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-05
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa:
- apparent magnitude
- 10.363
- right ascension
- 14.2916333
- declination
- -43.7271278
- redshift
- 0.023660
- radial velocity
- 7009
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 322
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 322 is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 318 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered on September 5, 1834 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small, round, a little brighter middle, 3 stars to west." It apparently seems to be interacting with PGC 95427, another galaxy.
One supernova, SN 2018bwv (type Ia, mag. 16.2), was discovered in NGC 322 on 23 May, 2018.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 322-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.