Q731995
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 53 29.9
- Declination
- −13 ° 09 ′ 39 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 11,385 km/s
- Type
- (R'?)S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.7' × 0.7'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 285 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 2, 1886, by Francis Leavenworth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q731995” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.