NGC 463

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Galaxy
NGC 463
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation fishes
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 01 h 18 m 58.2 s
declination + 16 ° 19 ′ 33 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0:  
Brightness  (visual) 14.2 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.1 mag
Angular expansion 1 ′ × 0.4 ′
Position angle 4 °
Surface brightness 13.1 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.021005 ± 0.000017  
Radial velocity 6297 ± 5 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(286 ± 20)  x  10 6  ly
(87.8 ± 6.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery É. J.-M. Stephan
Discovery date December 16, 1871
Catalog names
NGC  463 • UGC  840 • PGC  4719 • CGCG  459-25 • MCG  + 03-04-019 • 2MASX  J01185818 + 1619319 • GC  5163 •

NGC 463 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble-type S0-a in the constellation Pisces , which is about 286 million light-years away from the Milky Way .

NGC 463 was discovered on December 16, 1871 by the French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan .

Web links

Commons : NGC 463  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 463
  3. Seligman