NGC 482
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 01 20 20.41
- Declination
- −40 ° 57 ′ 59.9 ″
- Redshift
- 0.021922 ± 0.000020
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (6500 ± 6) km/s
- Distance
- 277 Mly
- Type
- Sb
- Apparent size v
- 2.2′ × 0.5′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Image
- NGC 0482 DSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- radial velocity
- 6500
- catalog code
- APMBGC 296+000+060
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-10-23
- redshift
- 0.021922
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa:
- apparent magnitude
- 9.775
- right ascension
- 20.0850375
- declination
- -40.9660944
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 482
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 482 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Phoenix. It is located approximately 277 million light-years from Earth and was discovered on October 23, 1835 by astronomer John Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 482” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.