Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 12 57.4
- Declination
- −00 ° 20 ′ 42 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,625 km/s
- Distance
- 304.96 Mly (93.500 Mpc )
- Apparent magnitude v
- 14.3g
- Type
- S0^0:
- Apparent size v
- 1.52' × 0.35'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 89.74
- Image
- NGC429 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 429
- catalog code
- LEDA 4368
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-12-20
- redshift
- 0.018763
- galaxy morphological type
- -2
- apparent magnitude
- 12.585
- right ascension
- 18.2393917
- declination
- -0.3449139
- radial velocity
- 5574
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 429 is a lenticular galaxy of type S0^0: located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on December 20, 1786 by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, very small."
NGC 429 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036556” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.