Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces (constellation)
- Right ascension
- 01 22 55.36
- Declination
- +33 ° 10 ′ 25.8 ″
- Redshift
- 0.018388 ± 0.000067
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (5462 ± 20) km/s
- Distance
- 227 Mly
- Type
- Sab?
- Apparent size v
- 2.0′ × 0.8′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 494, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5035 or GC 282, is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 227 million light-years from Earth and was discovered on 22 November 1827 by astronomer John Herschel. John Dreyer, creator of the New General Catalogue, described the galaxy as "very faint, pretty large, extended, 3 faint stars to south".
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 494” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.