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.