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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 473 is referenced by 892 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Pisces, list of NGC objects (1–1000) and parsec.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1786, Discoveries by William Herschel and IRAS catalogue objects.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 19 55.0731
- Declination
- +16 ° 32 ′ 41.668 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,134 km/s
- Distance
- 29.8 Mpc
- Type
- SABo(r)a
- Size
- ~73,500 ly (22.54 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.9' x 1.2'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 31.1
- Image
- NGC473 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2591750190310966400
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-10-15
- redshift
- 0.007185
- apparent magnitude
- 9.563
- Commons category
- NGC 473
- right ascension
- 19.97941322986630
- declination
- 16.54480230775920
- radial velocity
- 2146
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 473 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pisces. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1819 ± 22 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 87.5 ± 6.2 Mly (26.82 ± 1.91 Mpc). In addition, one non redshift measurement gives a distance of 97 Mly (29.8 Mpc). It was discovered on December 20, 1786 by William Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 473” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.