Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 15 49.6
- Declination
- +31 ° 04 ′ 49 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,839 km/s
- Distance
- 172.16 ± 23.24 Mly (52.785 ± 7.126 Mpc )
- Type
- Sd
- Apparent size v
- 1.9' × 0.4'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 50.3
- Image
- NGC444 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 444
- catalog code
- LEDA 4561
- galaxy morphological type
- SAcd
- time of discovery or invention
- 1854-10-26
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- redshift
- 0.016141
- apparent magnitude
- 13.572
- radial velocity
- 5079
- right ascension
- 18.9566000
- declination
- 31.0802306
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 444 is a spiral galaxy of type Sd located in the constellation Pisces. It was first discovered on October 26, 1854 by R. J. Mitchell (and later listed as NGC 444), and was also spotted on October 17, 1903 by Stéphane Javelle (and later listed as IC 1658). It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, much extended 135°, a little brighter middle."
Image taken by SDSS.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036634” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.