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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 19 48.50
- Declination
- +32 ° 46 ′ 04.0 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5026 ± 85 km/s
- Distance
- 229.6 ± 16.2 Mly (70.41 ± 4.96 Mpc )
- Type
- S0-a
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0468 SDSS (Aladin).jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 316749925365616768
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-11-22
- redshift
- 0.017252
- apparent magnitude
- 11.345
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a
- Commons category
- NGC 468
- right ascension
- 19.95165770423940
- declination
- 32.76790954718530
- radial velocity
- 5026
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 468 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. Located approximately 209 million light-years from Earth, it was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel in 1827.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 468” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.