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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 07 47.1
- Declination
- +32 ° 18 ′ 36 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,444 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
- 62.81
- Image
- NGC388 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 5431
- catalog code
- LEDA 4005
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1850-11-04
- apparent magnitude
- 11.348
- galaxy morphological type
- E...
- Commons category
- NGC 388
- redshift
- 0.01816
- right ascension
- 16.9466542
- declination
- 32.3097833
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 388 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 "very faint, small, round." Along with galaxies NGC 375, NGC 379, NGC 382, NGC 383, NGC 384, NGC 385, NGC 386 and NGC 387, NGC 388 forms a galaxy cluster called Arp 331.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 388” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.