Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.021274138765765338
- Coordinates
- RA 19.7425° · Dec 16.3255°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 18 58.2 .
- Declination
- 16 ° 19 ′ 33 ″
- Redshift
- 0.021005/6297 km/s
- Distance
- 264 million ly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.2' × 0.4'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC463 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0-a
- Commons category
- NGC 463
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2591739332633618304
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1871-12-16
- redshift
- 0.021005
- apparent magnitude
- 10.690
- right ascension
- 19.74254759823830
- declination
- 16.32548640494060
- radial velocity
- 6230
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 463 is a lenticular galaxy located about 264 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on December 16, 1871.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 463” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.