Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 06 34.8
- Declination
- −20 ° 19 ′ 57 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 16,051 km/s
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 1.2' × 0.3'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 377 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 15, 1885, by Francis Leavenworth. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small, much extended, suddenly brighter middle and nucleus."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036331” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.