Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 58 22.7
- Declination
- +26 ° 51 ′ 55 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 14,210 km/s
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 1.4'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- radio galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 136.14
- Image
- NGC326-HST-R814GB555.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 326
- catalog code
- GB6 B0055+2635
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-08-24
- redshift
- 0.047159
- apparent magnitude
- 10.097
- galaxy morphological type
- dG...
- right ascension
- 14.5943208
- declination
- 26.8662806
- radial velocity
- 14024
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 326 is a dumbbell galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on August 24, 1865 by Heinrich d'Arrest. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, a little extended, 9th or 10th magnitude star to southeast."
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036153” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.