NGC 468

Spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces

NGC 468
SDSS image of NGC 468
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Pisces
Right ascension	01^h 19^m 48.50^s^[1]
Declination	+32° 46′ 04.0″^[1]
Redshift	0.016908^[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	5026 ± 85 km/s^[2]
Distance	229.6 ± 16.2 Mly (70.41 ± 4.96 Mpc)^[1]
Apparent magnitude (B)	15.19^[3]
Characteristics
Type	S0-a^[3]
Other designations
IC 92, MCG +05-04-020, PGC 4780^[2]

NGC 468 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. Located approximately 209 million light-years from Earth, it was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel in 1827.^[4]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Results for object NGC 0468 (NGC 468)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
^ ^a ^b ^c "NGC 468". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
^ ^a ^b "Search specification: NGC 468". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 468". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
^ "NGC 468 - Galaxy - SKY-MAP". news.sky-map.org. Retrieved 2017-08-12.