Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 03 21.9
- Declination
- −06 ° 20 ′ 21 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,406 km/s
- Type
- SB0/a?(r)
- Apparent size v
- 2.4' × 1.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 86000000
- Image
- NGC357 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- SB0-a
- redshift
- 0.008026
- catalog code
- LEDA 3768
- Commons category
- NGC 357
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-09-10
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 8.477
- right ascension
- 15.8411375
- declination
- -6.3392500
- radial velocity
- 2441
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 357 is a barred lenticular or spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 10, 1785, by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, small, irregularly round, suddenly brighter middle, 14th magnitude star 20 arcsec to northeast."
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q116374” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.