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
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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.