Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 04 40.8
- Declination
- −00 ° 48 ′ 10 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,127 km/s
- Apparent magnitude v
- 13.8g
- Type
- SB0
- Apparent size v
- 1.31' × 0.93'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- low-ionization nuclear emission-line region
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 112.63
- Image
- NGC 0364 DSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.01708
- catalog code
- LEDA 3833
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-02
- galaxy morphological type
- -2
- apparent magnitude
- 12.171
- Commons category
- NGC 364
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension
- 16.1703125
- declination
- -0.8026611
- radial velocity
- 5074
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 364 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 2, 1864, by Albert Marth. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small."
The galaxy is both visually and physically close to the elliptical galaxy NGC 359. A recent gravitational interaction between the two galaxies has created a large, faint tidal tail extending away from NGC 359 towards and below NGC 364. A small tidal star shell intersects this tail, strengthening the likelihood for a recent disturbance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 364” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.