NGC 284
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 53 24.3
- Declination
- −13 ° 09 ′ 32 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 11,530 km/s
- Type
- E0-1
- Apparent size v
- 0.2' × 0.2'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0284 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- PGC 3132
- Commons category
- NGC 284
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 15
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- redshift
- 0.038460
- radial velocity
- 11456
- right ascension
- 13.375
- declination
- -13.150
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 284 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 2, 1886, by Francis Leavenworth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 284” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.