NGC 455
| Galaxy NGC 455 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 15 m 57.6 s |
| declination | + 05 ° 10 ′ 43 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 153 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019437 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (5827 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(264 ± 19) x 10 6 ly (80.9 ± 5.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Albert Marth |
| Discovery date | October 27, 1864 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 455 • UGC 815 • PGC 4572 • CGCG 411-015 • MCG + 01-04-011 • 2MASX J01155764 + 0510435 • Arp 164 • GC 5161 • LEDA 4572 • LDCE 75 NED004 | |
NGC 455 is a galaxy in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is around 264 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 155,000 light years. Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of diffuse filament galaxies . In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 437 and NGC 446 .
The object was discovered by Albert Marth on October 27, 1864 .
Web links
Commons : NGC 455 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7