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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0377 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- APMBGC 541-014+029
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 11.466
- redshift
- 0.053540
- right ascension
- 16.6462250
- declination
- -20.3322222
- radial velocity
- 16051
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 377
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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 “NGC 377” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.