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NGC 477

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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Right ascension
01 21 20.39
Declination
+40 ° 29 ′ 17.6 ″
Redshift
0.019560 ± 0.000033
Heliocentric radial velocity
5807 ± 10 km/s
Distance
250 Mly
Type
SAB(s)c
Apparent size v
1,6′ × 1,1′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Andromeda
Distance from Earth
86.30
Image
NGC 0477 SDSS.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 371801029459671680
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1786-10-18
redshift
0.019544
galaxy morphological type
SABbc
apparent magnitude
12.669
radial velocity
5876
Commons category
NGC 477
right ascension
20.33475555936690
declination
40.48816957986540
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 477 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It is located approximately 250 million light-years from Earth and was discovered on October 18, 1786 by astronomer William Herschel.

One supernova has been observed in NGC 477: SN 2002jy (type Ia, mag. 16.3).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 477” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.