Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 10 58.9
- Declination
- +33 ° 09 ′ 07 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,294 km/s
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 2.4' × 1.3'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 71.47
- Image
- NGC410 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 410
- catalog code
- LEDA 4224
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- redshift
- 0.017666
- apparent magnitude
- 10.603
- right ascension
- 17.7453000
- declination
- 33.1520278
- radial velocity
- 5233
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 410 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on September 12, 1784 by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "pretty bright, pretty large, northeastern of 2.", the other being NGC 407.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 410: SN 1995Y (Type I, mag. 18) was discovered by Jean Mueller on 28 August 1995.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036481” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.