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NGC 342
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 14,489 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.019403
- Coordinates
- RA 15.2077° · Dec -6.7725°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 00 49.8
- Declination
- −06 ° 46 ′ 21 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,817 km/s
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.6' × 0.3'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 100.36
- Image
- NGC 0342 SDSS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 5817
- redshift
- 0.019403
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2476348782755011712
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-27
- apparent magnitude
- 10.509
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- Commons category
- NGC 342
- right ascension
- 15.20773583483080
- declination
- -6.77254291932650
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 342 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1864 by Albert Marth. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 342” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.