Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 12 09.6
- Declination
- +32 ° 07 ′ 23 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,010 km/s
- Distance
- 207.87 ± 35.12 Mly (63.733 ± 10.768 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 2.0' × 2.0'
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 420 is a lenticular galaxy of type S0 located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on September 12, 1784 by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, pretty small, round, brighter middle."
NGC 420 in near-infrared
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 420” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.