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'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC449-hst-R680GB547.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 449
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 313817081177711872
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- 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
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 449” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.