NGC 338
| Galaxy NGC 338 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 00 m 36.4 s |
| declination | + 30 ° 40 ′ 08 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 109 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 266 group NGC 315 group LGG 14 |
| Redshift | 0.015938 ± 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | 4778 ± 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(220 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (67.5 ± 4.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ernst Leberecht Temple |
| Discovery date | 1877 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 338 • UGC 624 • PGC 3611 • CGCG 501-061 • MCG + 05-03-034 • IRAS 00578 + 3024 • 2MASX J01003640 + 30400 • GALEX ASC J010036.58 + 304007.8 • LDCE 74 NED015 | |
NGC 338 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 220 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 115,000 light years in diameter .
The galaxies NGC 315 , NGC 318 , IC 66 , IC 69 are in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered in 1877 by the German astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel .
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