NGC 331
Sign in to savespiral galaxy of the constellation Cetus
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- G
- Coordinates
- RA 14.2658° · Dec -2.7575°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 47 06.8
- Declination
- −02 ° 43 ′ 52 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7,139 km/s
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 0.8' × 0.5'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0331 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- Commons category
- NGC 331
- catalog code
- LEDA 3406
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 15.15
- redshift
- 0.023813
- right ascension
- 14.26583
- epoch
- J2000.0
- declination
- -2.75750
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 331 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in 1886 by Francis Leavenworth. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, very small, round, a little brighter middle, 12th magnitude star 3 arcmin northeast." There are two candidates as to which object is NGC 331: PGC 2759 or PGC 3406, with the former being a much more likely candidate than the latter.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 331” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.