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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Phoenix
Right ascension
00 57 14.8
Declination
−40 ° 57 ′ 33 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3,452 km/s
Type
S0
Apparent size v
1.20' × 0.48'

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 324 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered on October 23, 1835, by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "questionable, faint, small, stellar".

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 324” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.