Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 07 15.7
- Declination
- 32 ° 31 ′ 13 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,578 km/s
- Distance
- 195.5 million ly (59.944 mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.4 × 0.7
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 74.11
- Image
- NGC 0379 SDSS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 5527
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 313555706648049152
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- apparent magnitude
- 9.396
- Commons category
- NGC 379
- redshift
- 0.01861
- right ascension
- 16.81543617154540
- declination
- 32.52045196402760
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 379 is a lenticular galaxy 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".
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 379” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.