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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
01 16 12.4
Declination
+33 ° 03 ′ 51 ″
Galactocentric velocity
4880 km/s
Type
Sc

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Pisces
Image
NGC 0451 SDSS.jpg
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discoverer or inventor
Édouard Stephan
Commons category
NGC 451
time of discovery or invention
1881-11-10
catalog code
LEDA 4594
declination
33.0640972
galaxy morphological type
Sc
apparent magnitude
13.816
redshift
0.016278
right ascension
19.0516458
radial velocity
5127
epoch
J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 451 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered in 1881 by Édouard Stephan.

Photo taken by 2MASS

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 451” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.