Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 12 19.2
- Declination
- −32 ° 03 ′ 40 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 10,162 km/s
- Type
- (R)SB(r)a:
- Apparent size v
- 1.0' × 0.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Image
- NGC427 DECam.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 427
- parallax
- 1.7324
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5027088387645332992
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-25
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0a
- declination
- -32.06114800916740
- apparent magnitude
- 11.196
- redshift
- 0.033146
- right ascension
- 18.08025575841430
- radial velocity
- 10011
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.629
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.935
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 427 is a spiral galaxy of type (R)SB(r)a: located in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on September 25, 1834, by John Herschel.
It was described by Dreyer as "3 very small (faint) stars with nebulosity (?)."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q957417” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.