Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 16 03.6
- Declination
- +04 ° 17 ′ 39 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,446 km/s
- Type
- (R)SAB0^0
- Apparent size v
- 2.0' × 1.6'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 72.80
- Image
- NGC446 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 446
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2563816650730263808
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-10-23
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- redshift
- 0.018166
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- apparent magnitude
- 9.750
- right ascension
- 19.01512021323240
- declination
- 4.29415574730910
- radial velocity
- 5461
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 446 is a lenticular galaxy of type (R)SAB0^0 located in the constellation Pisces. It was first discovered on October 23, 1864, by Albert Marth (and later listed as NGC 446); it was also seen on August 20, 1892, by Stéphane Javelle (and later listed as IC 89). It was described by Dreyer as "faint, very small, stellar."
Image by the SDSS.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 446” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.