Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 19 59.59494
- Declination
- +14 ° 47 ′ 10.4016 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4094 ± 22 km/s
- Distance
- 184.0 ± 13.0 Mly (56.40 ± 3.98 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC471 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2591270386629245568
- redshift
- 0.013750
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-11-03
- galaxy morphological type
- -2
- apparent magnitude
- 12.570
- Commons category
- NGC 471
- right ascension
- 19.99831225132880
- declination
- 14.78622267531820
- radial velocity
- 4094
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 471 is a lenticular galaxy located about 168 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by the German astronomer Albert Marth on November 3, 1864.
NGC 471 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 471” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.