Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.01765221191788621
- Morphology
- E
- Coordinates
- RA 17.7108° · Dec 33.1134°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 10 51.1
- Declination
- +33 ° 09 ′ 05 ″
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy group
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0408 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 313963900339829376
- time of discovery or invention
- 1867-10-22
- discoverer or inventor
- Herman Schultz
- Commons category
- NGC 408
- right ascension
- 17.71080291784120
- declination
- 33.11341916577900
- apparent magnitude
- 12.329
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 408 is a star located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on October 22, 1867, by Herman Schultz. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small, (WH) II 220 eight seconds of time to east.", WH II 220 being NGC 410.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 408” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.