Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- G
- Redshift
- z = 0.04649549922967042
- Coordinates
- RA 19.5458° · Dec 4.2261°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 18 10.9
- Declination
- +04 ° 13 ′ 35 ″
- Redshift
- 0.04650 ± 0.00010
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 13615 ± 29 km/s
- Distance
- 623 Mly
- Apparent magnitude v
- 14,7
- Type
- Elliptical
- Apparent size v
- 0,4' × 0,4'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC462 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 462
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2563056338440101120
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-10-23
- apparent magnitude
- 11.449
- right ascension
- 19.54579748668950
- declination
- 4.22608912219000
- radial velocity
- 13939
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 462 is an elliptical galaxy located in the Pisces constellation. It was discovered by Albert Marth on 23 October 1864. Dreyer, creator of the New General Catalogue, originally described it as "extremely faint, very small, stellar". The word stellar clearly suggests an initial misidentification of NGC 462 as a star.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036724” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.