NGC 430
| Galaxy NGC 430 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | whale |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 12 m 59.929 s |
| declination | -00 ° 15 ′ 08.99 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E: |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 155 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Abell 168 |
| Redshift | 0.017676 ± 0.000063 |
| Radial velocity | 5299 ± 19 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(240 ± 17) x 10 6 ly (73.5 ± 5.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | October 1, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 430 • UGC 765 • PGC 4376 • CGCG 385-029 • MCG + 00-04-039 • 2MASX J01125992-0015087 • GC 239 • H II 447 • h 93 • GALEX ASC J011259.84-001510.3 • LDCE 66 NED011 | |
NGC 430 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E3 in the constellation Cetus south of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 240 million light years from the Milky Way and about 90,000 light years across.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 426 , NGC 429 , IC 1640 , IC 1643 .
The object was discovered on October 1, 1785 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel . It is too faint for inclusion in the Messier catalog, but in the NGC it is about average.
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