Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 09 33.2
- Declination
- −35 ° 48 ′ 20 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6,618 km/s
- Type
- E:
- Apparent size v
- 1.3' × 1.1'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 91.31
- Image
- NGC 409 DECam.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 409
- catalog code
- APMBGC 352+052+055
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1837-11-29
- redshift
- 0.021848
- apparent magnitude
- 10.003
- right ascension
- 17.3884708
- declination
- -35.8056417
- radial velocity
- 6509
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 409 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on November 29, 1837 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, small, round, very small (faint) star near."
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 409” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.