Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 56 15.9
- Declination
- −52 ° 46 ′ 58 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7,978 km/s
- Type
- E2
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 1.1'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 94.15
- Image
- NGC 312 +ESO 151-5 DECam.jpg
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- catalog code
- APMBGC 151+097-106
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1836-09-05
- redshift
- 0.026702
- apparent magnitude
- 9.485
- right ascension
- 14.0664125
- declination
- -52.7826722
- radial velocity
- 7898
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 312
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 312 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered on September 5, 1836, by John Herschel. NGC 312 is situated south of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere. Given its B magnitude of 13.4, NGC 312 is visible with the help of a telescope having an aperture of 10 inches (250mm) or more.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036093” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.