Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 4,104 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.016565
- Morphology
- S0
- Coordinates
- RA 14.0251° · Dec 24.1269°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 56 06.0
- Declination
- +24 ° 07 ′ 37 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,991 km/s
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 0.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 67.14
- Image
- NGC304 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.016611
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2804023687580235008
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1878-10-23
- apparent magnitude
- 9.716
- Commons category
- NGC 304
- right ascension
- 14.02505728771670
- declination
- 24.12690864092810
- radial velocity
- 4925
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 304 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on October 23, 1878, by Édouard Stephan.
One supernova, SN 2021dnn (type Ia, mag. 15.3), was discovered in NGC 304 on 22 February, 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 304” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.