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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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 “Q958836” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.