Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 16 07.2
- Declination
- +33 ° 05 ′ 22 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,780 km/s
- Absolute magnitude v
- −20.37
- Type
- (R')S?
- Apparent size v
- 0.8' × 0.5'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- NGC449-hst-R680GB547.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- Commons category
- NGC 449
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 313817081177711872
- time of discovery or invention
- 1881-11-11
- redshift
- 0.016044
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- apparent magnitude
- 13.696
- radial velocity
- 5065
- right ascension
- 19.03004028450420
- declination
- 33.08934754259450
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Article
NGC 449 is a spiral galaxy of type (R')S? located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on November 11, 1881 by Édouard Stephan. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small, round, very little brighter middle, very faint star involved."
NGC 449 is an active galaxy, specifically a Seyfert galaxy. The supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 449 is 1.32×10 M☉, and matter from its accretion disk is currently accreting at a rate of 2.54×10 M☉ per year.
Connections
list of NGC objects (1–1000)
Entity
epoch
Entity
NGC 241
Entity
NGC 945
Entity
constellation
Entity
Hubble Space Telescope
Entity
Andromeda Galaxy
Entity
digital object identifier
Entity
Pisces
Entity
redshift
Entity
solar mass
Entity
apparent magnitude
Entity
Triangulum Galaxy
Entity
right ascension
Entity
declination
Entity
absolute magnitude
Entity
spiral galaxy
Entity
New General Catalogue
Entity
Small Magellanic Cloud
Entity
bibcode
Entity