Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 13 02.5
- Declination
- 38 ° 46 ′ 06 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6,438 km/s
- Distance
- 58.100 Mpc
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 0.95 ′ × 0.8 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 85.97
- Image
- NGC 425 PanSTARRS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 6345
- Commons category
- NGC 425
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 370281573109846400
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1879-10-11
- redshift
- 0.021475
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- apparent magnitude
- 10.265
- right ascension
- 18.26079153739430
- declination
- 38.76841453387530
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 425 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered on 29 October 1866 by Truman Safford.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036537” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.