Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 02 24.5
- Declination
- −01 ° 57 ′ 32 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,108 km/s
- Type
- SBa
- Apparent size v
- 1.3' × 0.4'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 55.88
- Image
- NGC353 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 3714
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-11-10
- redshift
- 0.016011
- apparent magnitude
- 10.609
- galaxy morphological type
- SBab
- Commons category
- NGC 353
- right ascension
- 15.6022625
- declination
- -1.9590556
- radial velocity
- 4137
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 353 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, round, southeastern of 2.", the other being NGC 351.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 353” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.