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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Image
- NGC 423 PanS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S:
- Commons category
- NGC 423
- catalog code
- APMBGC 412+001-033
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-11-14
- redshift
- 0.005270
- apparent magnitude
- 10.504
- right ascension
- 17.8425542
- declination
- -29.2345222
- radial velocity
- 1585
- epoch
- J2000.0
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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.