Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 07 05.9
- Declination
- +32 ° 20 ′ 53 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,855 km/s
- Type
- E2:
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 1.4'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 375 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on September 12, 1784 by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "pretty faint, small, round, brighter middle." Along with galaxies NGC 379, NGC 380, NGC 382, NGC 383, NGC 384, NGC 385, NGC 386, NGC 387 and NGC 388, NGC 375 forms a galaxy cluster called Arp 331.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 375” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.