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EntityQ957417· pop 34· linked from 835 articles

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Vinony's link graph records 835 inbound references to Q957417, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1835, NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.

Vinony links it to 34 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Sculptor
Right ascension
01 12 19.2
Declination
−32 ° 03 ′ 40 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
10,162 km/s
Type
(R)SB(r)a:
Apparent size v
1.0' × 0.7'

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Wikidata facts

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NGC427 DECam.jpg
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Commons category
NGC 427
parallax
1.7324
catalog code
Gaia DR2 5027088387645332992
time of discovery or invention
1834-09-25
galaxy morphological type
SB0a
declination
-32.06114800916740
apparent magnitude
11.196
redshift
0.033146
right ascension
18.08025575841430
radial velocity
10011
right ascension component of proper motion
0.629
declination component of proper motion
-0.935
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 427 is a spiral galaxy of type (R)SB(r)a: located in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on September 25, 1834, by John Herschel.

It was described by Dreyer as "3 very small (faint) stars with nebulosity (?)."

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q957417” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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