Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 16 03.6
- Declination
- +04 ° 17 ′ 39 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,446 km/s
- Type
- (R)SAB0^0
- Apparent size v
- 2.0' × 1.6'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 446 is a lenticular galaxy of type (R)SAB0^0 located in the constellation Pisces. It was first discovered on October 23, 1864, by Albert Marth (and later listed as NGC 446); it was also seen on August 20, 1892, by Stéphane Javelle (and later listed as IC 89). It was described by Dreyer as "faint, very small, stellar."
Image by the SDSS.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036641” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.