NGC 486
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 21 43.0
- Declination
- +05 ° 20 ′ 47 ″
- Type
- S??
- Apparent size v
- 0.5' × 0.2'
- Notable features
- Angular proximity with faint star; commonly misidentified as PGC 4975
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0486 SDSS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 20.5439750
- declination
- 5.4114472
- apparent magnitude
- 13.401
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 13912
- catalog code
- LEDA 4975
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1850-12-06
- redshift
- 0.047533
- Commons category
- NGC 486
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 486, also occasionally referred to as LEDA 1281966 or GC 275, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. NGC 486 was discovered on December 6, 1850 by Irish engineer Bindon Blood Stoney.
NGC 486 is commonly misidentified as PGC 4975, which is sometimes referred to as NGC 492A.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 486” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.