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- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.01663
- Morphology
- SO
- Coordinates
- RA 17.2237° · Dec 32.5145°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 08 53.7
- Declination
- +32 ° 30 ′ 52 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,978 km/s
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.3' × 0.2'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 43.65
- Image
- NGC 0398 SDSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Guillaume Bigourdan
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 313915487468429696
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-10-28
- apparent magnitude
- 11.276
- Commons category
- NGC 398
- redshift
- 0.01663
- right ascension
- 17.22368968022670
- declination
- 32.51452265709900
- radial velocity
- 4944
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 398 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on October 28, 1886, by Guillaume Bigourdan. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small, stellar."
NGC 398 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 398” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.