Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 12 09.6
- Declination
- +32 ° 07 ′ 23 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,010 km/s
- Distance
- 207.87 ± 35.12 Mly (63.733 ± 10.768 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 2.0' × 2.0'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 66.82
- Image
- NGC420 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 420
- catalog code
- LEDA 4320
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- redshift
- 0.016665
- apparent magnitude
- 9.538
- right ascension
- 18.0402792
- declination
- 32.1231528
- radial velocity
- 4954
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 420 is a lenticular galaxy of type S0 located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on September 12, 1784 by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, pretty small, round, brighter middle."
NGC 420 in near-infrared
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 420” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.