Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 21 15.723
- Declination
- +03 ° 51 ′ 44.09 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5221 km/s
- Distance
- 240 Mly (74 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)bc:
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 74
- Image
- NGC 0479 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 4905
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-10-27
- redshift
- 0.017462
- apparent magnitude
- 11.825
- Commons category
- NGC 479
- right ascension
- 20.3155125
- declination
- 3.8622472
- radial velocity
- 5221
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 479 (also known as UGC 893, MCG 1-4-31, ZWG 411.31, PGC 4905) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on October 27, 1864. It is about 240 million light-years away from Earth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 479” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.