Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.01689692
- Morphology
- SBab
- Coordinates
- RA 19.0617° · Dec 31.0338°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 16 14.8
- Declination
- +31 ° 02 ′ 02 ″
- Galactocentric velocity
- 4962 km/s
- Type
- SBab
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 78.2
- Image
- NGC452 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 452
- right ascension
- 19.0617042
- catalog code
- 2MASS J01161480+3102017
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-11-22
- galaxy morphological type
- SBab
- apparent magnitude
- 11.28
- redshift
- 0.0180
- declination
- 31.0338278
- radial velocity
- 5348
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 452 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered in 1827 by Sir John Herschel. It is about 5 arcminutes west of NGC 444.
Image taken by 2MASS.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q770197” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.