NGC 472
| Galaxy NGC 472 |
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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 20 m 28.7 s |
| declination | + 32 ° 42 ′ 33 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | VY CMPT |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 120 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017719 ± 0.000073 |
| Radial velocity | 5312 ± 22 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(244 ± 17) x 10 6 ly (74.8 ± 5.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | August 29, 1862 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 472 • UGC 870 • PGC 4833 • CGCG 502-034 • MCG + 05-04-022 • 2MASX J01202867 + 3242322 • GC 4833 • LDCE 74 NED053 | |
NGC 472 is a Hubble-type S0 spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 244 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 90,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 468 , IC 1666 , IC 1669 , IC 1673 .
The object was discovered on August 29, 1862 by the German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest .
Web links
Commons : NGC 472 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
