Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 06 12.223
- Declination
- 30 ° 10 ′ 41.17 ″
- Distance
- 389 M ly (119.5 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(r)c
- Apparent size v
- 1.65 ′ × 1.3 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Image
- NGC 378 DECam.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5031263233296030464
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- Sab
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-28
- redshift
- 0.032062
- radial velocity
- 9458
- apparent magnitude
- 10.380
- right ascension
- 16.55080323687590
- declination
- -30.17813830010860
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 378
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 378 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on September 28, 1834 by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 378” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.