Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 06 15.8
- Declination
- −16 ° 32 ′ 34 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 11,242 km/s
- Distance
- 417 million ly (128 mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.25' × 0.25'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 363 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on November 28, 1885 by Francis Leavenworth. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, extremely small, round."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 363” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.