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Vinony's link graph records 892 inbound references to NGC 407, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1784, Discoveries by William Herschel and NGC objects.
Vinony links it to 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 10 36.5
- Declination
- +33 ° 07 ′ 35 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,573 km/s
- Surface brightness
- 24.24 mag/arcsec
- Type
- S0/a:
- Apparent size v
- 1.7' × 0.4'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 75.20
- Radius
- 67500
- Image
- NGC407 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 407
- catalog code
- LEDA 4190
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- apparent magnitude
- 9.802
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a
- redshift
- 0.018620
- right ascension
- 17.6524250
- declination
- 33.1264333
- radial velocity
- 5530
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 407 is an edge-on spiral or lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on September 12, 1784, by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small, southwestern of 2.", the other being NGC 410.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 407” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.