Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 07 31.3
- Declination
- +32 ° 21 ′ 43 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,556 km/s
- Type
- E3:
- Apparent size v
- 0.9' × 0.8'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 59.98
- Image
- NGC 0386 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 313536190316672384
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1850-11-04
- galaxy morphological type
- E...
- apparent magnitude
- 13.225
- Commons category
- NGC 386
- redshift
- 0.01853
- right ascension
- 16.88044868175270
- declination
- 32.36192701493630
- radial velocity
- 5504
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 386 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 "considerably faint, small, round." Along with galaxies NGC 375, NGC 379, NGC 382, NGC 383, NGC 384, NGC 385, NGC 387 and NGC 388, NGC 386 forms a galaxy cluster called Arp 331.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 386” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.