Key facts
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Right ascension
- 01 02 51.4
- Declination
- −65 ° 36 ′ 36 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,306 km/s
- Distance
- 103 Mly
- Type
- Sbc
- Apparent size v
- 4.03' × 0.52'
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 29
- Image
- NGC 360 DECam.jpg
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- catalog code
- RFGC 238
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- Commons category
- NGC 360
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-11-02
- redshift
- 0.007619
- apparent magnitude
- 9.114
- right ascension
- 15.7143583
- declination
- -65.6099917
- radial velocity
- 2284
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NGC 360 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 103 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered on 2 November 1834 by John Herschel. Dreyer, creator of the New General Catalogue described the object as "extremely faint, very much extended 145°, very little brighter middle."
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