NGC 462 [SEP] constellation
NGC 462
NGC 462 is an elliptical galaxy located in the Pisces constellation. It was discovered by Albert Marth on 23 October 1864. Dreyer, creator of the New General Catalogue, originally described it as "extremely faint, very small, stellar". The word stellar clearly suggests an initial misidentification of NGC 462 as a star.
See also.
- Elliptical galaxy
- List of NGC objects (1–1000)
- Pisces (constellation)
External links.
- SEDS
or LGG 436. Other members of the group, apart from NGC 6908, include IC 4999 and IC 5005. These two galaxies lie 61 and 74 arcminutes off NGC 6907 respectively. The group seems to form, with some other galaxies lying at similar redshift, like ESO 462- G016, a sheet of galaxies that extends 10 degrees in the sky, which corresponds to 7 Mpc at the distance of NGC 6907.
Supernovae.
NGC 6907 has been home to four supernovae in the last 35 years; SN 1984V (