Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 5,435,933 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.017646
- Morphology
- Sb
- Coordinates
- RA 20.1196° · Dec 32.7091°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 20 26.68
- Declination
- +32 ° 42 ′ 32.3 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,243 km/s
- Distance
- 220 Mly
- Type
- Sb
- Apparent size v
- 0.8' × 0.6'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 472 is a spiral galaxy located roughly 220 million lightyears from earth in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on August 29, 1862 by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 472” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.