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'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 127.04
- Image
- NGC 0363 DSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2359394692980636160
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- redshift
- 0.037379
- apparent magnitude
- 10.925
- right ascension
- 16.56579093922380
- declination
- -16.54278898292580
- radial velocity
- 10997
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 363
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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.