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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
01 19 59.59494
Declination
+14 ° 47 ′ 10.4016 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4094 ± 22 km/s
Distance
184.0 ± 13.0 Mly (56.40 ± 3.98 Mpc )
Type
S0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 471 is a lenticular galaxy located about 168 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by the German astronomer Albert Marth on November 3, 1864.

NGC 471 (SDSS)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 471” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.