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- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 5,435,933 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.017646
- Morphology
- Sb
- Coordinates
- RA 20.1196° · Dec 32.7091°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 20 26.68
- Declination
- +32 ° 42 ′ 32.3 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,243 km/s
- Distance
- 220 Mly
- Type
- Sb
- Apparent size v
- 0.8' × 0.6'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 71.65
- Image
- NGC 0472 SDSS (Aladin).jpg
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- redshift
- 0.017596
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 316737040463664768
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1862-08-29
- apparent magnitude
- 10.185
- Commons category
- NGC 472
- right ascension
- 20.11957351244100
- declination
- 32.70907287867310
- radial velocity
- 5243
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 472 is a spiral galaxy located roughly 220 million lightyears from earth in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on August 29, 1862 by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 472” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.