Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 15 57.6
- Declination
- +05 ° 10 ′ 43 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,827 km/s
- Type
- S?
- Apparent size v
- 1.9' × 1.2'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 455 is a lenticular galaxy of type S? located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on October 27, 1864, by Albert Marth. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, very small, almost stellar."
NGC 455 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036676” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.