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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 397 is referenced by 891 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1866, Lenticular galaxies and NGC objects.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 10,890 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.016511
- Morphology
- S0
- Coordinates
- RA 17.1297° · Dec 33.1092°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 08 31.1
- Declination
- +33 ° 06 ′ 33 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,995 km/s
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.2' × 0.2'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 62.81
- Image
- NGC 0397 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 314700332612298496
- redshift
- 0.016511
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- Robert Stawell Ball
- time of discovery or invention
- 1866-12-06
- apparent magnitude
- 13.546
- Commons category
- NGC 397
- right ascension
- 17.12967124390130
- declination
- 33.10917986037970
- radial velocity
- 4909
- epoch
- J2000.0
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 397 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on December 6, 1866, by Robert Ball. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, small, round, very faint star to west."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 397” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.