Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 01 08 34.1
- Declination
- −46 ° 40 ′ 07 ″
- Spectral type
- F0V
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Image
- NGC 0405 2MASS.jpg
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- right ascension component of proper motion
- 19.12
- catalog code
- Gaia DR1 4933360548998814208
- declination component of proper motion
- 23.50
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-06
- Commons category
- NGC 405
- right ascension
- 17.140974212
- declination
- -46.667981677
- effective temperature
- 7362
- radial velocity
- 22.7
- stellar rotational velocity
- 121
- apparent magnitude
- 6.176
- parallax
- 12.15
- spectral class
- A5
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Encyclopedic overview
HD 6869 is a 7th magnitude star located in the constellation of Phoenix. It was discovered on September 6, 1834 by John Herschel and later led to the entry NGC 405 in the New General Catalogue.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 405” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.