Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 10 35.6
- Declination
- −30 ° 13 ′ 17 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,707 km/s
- Distance
- 199.04 ± 27.66 Mly (61.025 ± 8.480 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(s)c
- Apparent size v
- 2.0' × 1.7'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 77.14
- Image
- NGC 418 DECam.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 418
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5029705225318088832
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-28
- redshift
- 0.019043
- apparent magnitude
- 9.890
- right ascension
- 17.64846506651590
- declination
- -30.22102863349530
- radial velocity
- 5684
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 418 is a barred spiral galaxy of type SB(s)c located in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on September 28, 1834 by British astronomer John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, pretty large, round, very gradually a little brighter middle, western of 2.", the other being NGC 423.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 418” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.