Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 21 12.54
- Declination
- −09 ° 12 ′ 39.9 ″
- Redshift
- 0.01846 ± 0.00010
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (5482 ± 30) km/s
- Distance
- 229 Mly
- Type
- SA(r)0- pec?
- Apparent size v
- 1.7′ × 1.3′
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 52.58
- Image
- NGC 0481 SDSS.jpg
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- NGC 481
- redshift
- 0.018456
- galaxy morphological type
- E-S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2471205159985158528
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-11-20
- apparent magnitude
- 12.060
- right ascension
- 20.30212809245410
- declination
- -9.21119097541220
- radial velocity
- 5533
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NGC 481 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is located approximately 229 million light-years from Earth and was discovered on November 20, 1886 by astronomer Lewis A. Swift.
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