NGC 352

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.^[4]

NGC 352
SDSS image of NGC 352
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	01h 02m 09.206s[1]
Declination	−04° 14′ 43.61″[1]
Redshift	0.017625[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	5284 km/s[2]
Distance	208.09 ± 21.18 Mly (63.800 ± 6.495 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)	12.02[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	12.5[3]
Absolute magnitude (V)	−22.00[2]
Characteristics
Type	(R')SB(rs)b?[2]
Size	152,000 ly (46,610 pc)[2][note 1]
Apparent size (V)	2.4′ × 0.9′[2]
Other designations
MGC-01-03-071, PGC 3701

One supernova has been observed in NGC 352: SN 2022jzx (Type II, mag. 16.9).^[5]