NGC 285 (also PGC 3141) is a magnitude +14.7 lenticular galaxy located 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus.
The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Clark & Sons f/14.9 refracting telescope at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia on the 2nd October 1886.
Right Ascension 00h 53m 29.8s, Declination -13° 09' 37"
