Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 13 51.2626
- Declination
- −31 ° 47 ′ 18.151 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,636 km/s
- Type
- (R')SB0/a?(rs)
- Size
- ~161,600 ly (49.54 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.4′ × 1.1′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 441 is a lenticular galaxy of type (R')SB(rs)0/a? located in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on September 27, 1834, by British astronomer John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "pretty faint, small, round, gradually brighter middle."
One supernova has been observed in NGC 441: SN 2024agld (type Ia, mag. 18.947) was discovered by ATLAS on December 31, 2024.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q957292” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.