Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 01 57.8
- Declination
- −01 ° 56 ′ 12 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,225 km/s
- Type
- SB0/a
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 0.8'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 56.09
- Image
- NGC351 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2532601172020325504
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-11-10
- redshift
- 0.014010
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0a
- apparent magnitude
- 9.934
- Commons category
- NGC 351
- right ascension
- 15.49092815138610
- declination
- -1.93669667093290
- radial velocity
- 4171
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 351 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on November 10, 1885 by Lewis Swift. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, pretty small, northwestern of 2.", the other being NGC 353.
NGC 351 and NGC 353 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 351” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.