Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- H2G
- Redshift
- z = 0.005891417818992162
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 18.8769° · Dec -0.8609°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 15 30.4
- Declination
- −00 ° 51 ′ 40 ″
- Galactocentric velocity
- 1761 km/s
- Type
- SBc
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- flocculent spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 18
- Image
- NGC450 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 450
- catalog code
- LEDA 4540
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-10-01
- apparent magnitude
- 10.581
- redshift
- 0.005864
- galaxy morphological type
- SABcd
- right ascension
- 18.876958
- declination
- -0.8608278
- radial velocity
- 1761.0
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 450 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in 1785 by William Herschel. NGC 450 has a very close companion, UGC 807 (or PGC 4545), which is attached at the northeast side of the halo. UGC 807 appears fairly faint, fairly small, and elongated. Despite that UGC 807 appears to form a double system, the companion has a redshift that is over six times greater than NGC 450, so they are a line-of-sight pair.
NGC 450
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 450” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.