Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 12 57.4
- Declination
- −00 ° 20 ′ 42 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,625 km/s
- Distance
- 304.96 Mly (93.500 Mpc )
- Apparent magnitude v
- 14.3g
- Type
- S0^0:
- Apparent size v
- 1.52' × 0.35'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 429 is a lenticular galaxy of type S0^0: located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on December 20, 1786 by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small."
NGC 429 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036556” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.