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'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 343 DECam.jpg
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- catalog code
- APMBGC 475+085-084
- discoverer or inventor
- Frank Muller
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 13.491
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- redshift
- 0.055992
- right ascension
- 15.3982417
- declination
- -23.2646917
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 344
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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.