Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.01777004702270557
- Morphology
- SBbc
- Coordinates
- RA 15.5384° · Dec -4.2454°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 02 09.206
- Declination
- −04 ° 14 ′ 43.61 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5284 km/s
- Distance
- 208.09 ± 21.18 Mly (63.800 ± 6.495 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude v
- − 22.00
- Type
- (R')SB(rs)b?
- Size
- 152,000 ly (46,610 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 2.4 ′ × 0.9 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 70.73
- Image
- NGC352 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 3701
- declination
- -4.2454472
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-20
- redshift
- 0.017472
- galaxy morphological type
- SBb
- apparent magnitude
- 9.247
- Commons category
- NGC 352
- right ascension
- 15.5383583
- radial velocity
- 5192
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 352 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 20, 1784 by William Herschel. It was described as "pretty faint, small, irregularly extended" by John Louis Emil Dreyer, the compiler of the New General Catalogue; he also noted an "8th magnitude star 97 seconds of time to east" relative to the galaxy.
Supernova
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 352” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.