NGC 429
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| SDSS image from NGC 429 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | whale |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 12 m 57.42 s |
| declination | -00 ° 20 ′ 42 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 ^ 0 ^: / sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 19 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018763 ± 0.000077 |
| Radial velocity | 5625 ± 23 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(254 ± 18) x 10 6 ly (78.0 ± 5.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 20, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 429 • UGC 762 • PGC 4368 • CGCG 385-027 • MCG + 00-04-037 • 2MASX J01125745-0020416 • GC 237 • H III 593 • h 92 • GALEX ASC J011257.39-002043.4 • LDCE 66 NED010 | |
NGC 429 is a lenticular galaxy of Hubble type S0 in the constellation Cetus south of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 254 million light years from the Milky Way and about 105,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 426 , NGC 430 , IC 1640 , IC 1643 .
The object was discovered on December 20, 1786 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
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