Key facts
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Right ascension
- 01 11 46.2
- Declination
- −61 ° 31 ′ 40 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8,073 km/s
- Type
- S0^-
- Apparent size v
- 1.3' × 1.2'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 432 is a lenticular galaxy of type S0^- located in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered on October 6, 1834 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, small, round, gradually brighter middle, 12th magnitude star to east."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036581” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.