NGC 487
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 21 55.1
- Declination
- −16 ° 22 ′ 13 ″
- Redshift
- 0.019844/5949 km/s
- Distance
- 250 million ly
- Type
- SB(r)a
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' x 0.7'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 79.58
- Image
- NGC 0487 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2451599085251097856
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 10.898
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- right ascension
- 20.47958204175370
- declination
- -16.37032592027670
- radial velocity
- 5931
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 487
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 487 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 250 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cetus. NGC 487's calculated velocity is 5949 km/s. NGC 487 was discovered by American astronomer Francis Leavenworth on November 28, 1885.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 487” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.