Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 51 04.2
- Declination
- −07 ° 04 ′ 00 ″
- Distance
- 63 Mly
- Type
- SBcd
- Apparent size v
- 1.5' × 1.1'
- Notable features
- Interacting with NGC 274
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC275 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 275
- catalog code
- LEDA 2984
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1828-10-09
- galaxy morphological type
- SBcd
- apparent magnitude
- 12.27
- redshift
- 0.00584
- right ascension
- 12.77000
- declination
- -7.06639
- radial velocity
- 1734
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 275 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 63 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Cetus. It is one of a pair of galaxies, the other being NGC 274. It was discovered on October 9, 1828, by John Herschel.
The galaxy was described as "very faint, small, round, southeastern of 2" by John Dreyer in the New General Catalogue, with the other of the two galaxies being NGC 274.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 275” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.