Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 22 56.0
- Declination
- +33 ° 28 ′ 18 ″
- Redshift
- +0.013679 ± 0.000073
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (4073 ± 22) km/s
- Distance
- 184 Mly
- Type
- SB0-a
- Apparent size v
- 1.2' × 0.8'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 495, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5037, UGC 920 or GC 278, is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 184 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 12 September 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 495” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.