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
Arp 59 MRK 968 MCG -02-03-063 2MASX J01004581-0911087 6dF J0100457-091109 PGC 3620
References: [1] [2]