Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 11 22.2
- Declination
- −29 ° 14 ′ 04 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,602 km/s
- Type
- S0/a?
- Apparent size v
- 1.0' × 0.4'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 423 is a lenticular galaxy of type S0/a? located in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on November 14, 1835 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, small, extended, gradually a little brighter middle, eastern of 2.", the other being NGC 418.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q957266” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.