Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 07 25.1
- Declination
- +32 ° 17 ′ 33 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,233 km/s
- Type
- E3
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 0.9'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 57.99
- Image
- NGC 0384 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- SDSS J010725.01+321733.9
- radial velocity
- 4203
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1850-11-04
- apparent magnitude
- 12.231
- Commons category
- NGC 384
- redshift
- 0.01412
- right ascension
- 16.8542390
- declination
- 32.2927530
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 384 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on November 4, 1850, by Bindon Stoney. It was described by Dreyer as "pretty faint, pretty small, southwestern of 2.", the other being NGC 385. Along with galaxies NGC 375, NGC 379, NGC 382, NGC 383, NGC 385, NGC 386, NGC 387 and NGC 388, NGC 384 forms a galaxy cluster called Arp 331.
Region around the nucleus of NGC 384 shows circular dust lanes. Image by Hubble WFC3.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 384” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.