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Vinony's link graph records 892 inbound references to NGC 407, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1784, Discoveries by William Herschel and NGC objects.

Vinony links it to 37 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
01 10 36.5
Declination
+33 ° 07 ′ 35 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5,573 km/s
Surface brightness
24.24 mag/arcsec
Type
S0/a:
Apparent size v
1.7' × 0.4'

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Pisces
Distance from Earth
75.20
Radius
67500
Image
NGC407 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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Commons category
NGC 407
catalog code
LEDA 4190
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1784-09-12
apparent magnitude
9.802
galaxy morphological type
S0a
redshift
0.018620
right ascension
17.6524250
declination
33.1264333
radial velocity
5530
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 407 is an edge-on spiral or lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on September 12, 1784, by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small, southwestern of 2.", the other being NGC 410.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 407” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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