NGC 341
NGC 341 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 21, 1881 by Édouard Stephan. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, pretty large, round, a little brighter middle, mottled but not resolved." It has a companion galaxy, PGC 3627, which is sometimes called NGC 341B.[3] For this, reason, it has been included in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.[4]
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 341 (Arp 59)
| NGC 341 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 341 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 01h 00m 45.8s |
| Declination | −09° 11′ 09″ |
| Redshift | 0.015187 |
| Heliocentric radial velocity | 4,553 km/s< |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 13.7g |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SAB(r)bc |
| Apparent size (V) | 1.21' × 1.00' |
| Other designations | |
References
- "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 0341. Retrieved September 2, 2016.
- "Reference Catalog of galaxy SEDs". Multi-wavelength data on NGC 0341. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 300 - 349". Cseligman. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- Arp, Halton (1966). ATLAS OF PECULIAR GALAXIES. Pasadena, California: California Institute of Technology. Retrieved January 5, 2010. (webpage includes PDF link)
External links
Media related to NGC 341 at Wikimedia Commons
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