NGC 440
Sign in to savespiral galaxy in the constellation Tucana
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 440 is referenced by 810 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), Tucana and epoch.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1834, NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Right ascension
- 01 12 48.5
- Declination
- −58 ° 16 ′ 56 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,014 km/s
- Type
- SA(s)bc pec
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 0.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Distance from Earth
- 69.14
- Image
- NGC 0440 2MASS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 440
- catalog code
- APMBGC 113+035-082
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-27
- redshift
- 0.016725
- apparent magnitude
- 10.134
- right ascension
- 18.2020667
- declination
- -58.2822306
- radial velocity
- 4989
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 440 is a spiral galaxy of type SA(s)bc pec located in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered on September 27, 1834 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, very small, round."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 440” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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