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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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.