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'
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 91.31
- Image
- NGC 409 DECam.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 409
- catalog code
- APMBGC 352+052+055
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- 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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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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