Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 14 04.5
- Declination
- +33 ° 42 ′ 15 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,728 km/s
- Distance
- 318.55 ± 74.14 Mly (97.667 ± 22.732 Mpc )
- Type
- SB0
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 0.9'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC431 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 431
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 314052651544172416
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-11-22
- redshift
- 0.019180
- radial velocity
- 5786
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- apparent magnitude
- 9.907
- right ascension
- 18.51889398716130
- declination
- 33.70423676800220
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 431 is a lenticular galaxy of type SB0 located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on November 22, 1827 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, small, very suddenly brighter middle."
NGC 431 (2MASS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036569” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.