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galaxy

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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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NGC462 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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Commons category
NGC 462
galaxy morphological type
E
catalog code
Gaia DR2 2563056338440101120
time of discovery or invention
1864-10-23
apparent magnitude
11.449
right ascension
19.54579748668950
declination
4.22608912219000
radial velocity
13939

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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.

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