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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 70.42
- Image
- NGC455 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- P
- Commons category
- NGC 455
- catalog code
- [HDL96] 411 43
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-10-27
- redshift
- 0.017575
- apparent magnitude
- 9.599
- right ascension
- 18.9901708
- declination
- 5.1787528
- radial velocity
- 5231
- epoch
- J2000.0
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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.