Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 19 44.845
- Declination
- +03 ° 24 ′ 35.90 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2585 km/s
- Distance
- 110 Mly (34 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(rs)b
- Apparent size v
- 2.8 ′ × 1.7 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 36
- Image
- NGC470 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 470
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- catalog code
- LEDA 4777
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-12-13
- apparent magnitude
- 8.837
- redshift
- 0.007919
- right ascension
- 19.9368542
- declination
- 3.4099722
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 2519
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 470 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. Located approximately 91 million lightyears from Earth, it was discovered by Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in 1784. The galaxy also weakly interacts with NGC 474.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036813” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.