Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 58 24.0
- Declination
- −23 ° 13 ′ 30 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 16,785 km/s
- Type
- S
- Apparent size v
- 0.35' × 0.2'
via Wikipedia infobox
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 344 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in 1886 by Frank Muller. It was described by John Louis Emil Dreyer as "extremely faint, very small, irregularly round, suddenly brighter middle and nucleus (perhaps a star?)."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 344” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.