Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 15 37.6
- Declination
- +33 ° 04 ′ 04 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,597 km/s
- Distance
- 232 Mly
- Type
- (R)SB(rs)0/a
- Apparent size v
- 2.2' × 2.2'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 75.50
- Image
- NGC447 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 447
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 313817459134835328
- time of discovery or invention
- 1861-10-08
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- redshift
- 0.018670
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- apparent magnitude
- 12.227
- declination
- 33.06779102356310
- right ascension
- 18.90687363418270
- radial velocity
- 5540
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 447 is a spiral galaxy of type (R)SB(rs)0/a located in the constellation Pisces. It was first discovered on October 8, 1861 by Heinrich d'Arrest (and later listed as NGC 447); it was also seen in the 1890s by Edward Emerson Barnard (and later listed as IC 1656). It was described by Dreyer as "faint, pretty large, brighter middle, 11th magnitude star to northeast."
NGC 447 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036649” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.