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.