Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 11.6
- Declination
- +33 ° 31 ′ 45 ″
- Redshift
- +0.020258 ± 0.000093
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (6011.7 ± 27.8) km/s
- Distance
- 250 Mly
- Type
- Sbc
- Apparent size v
- 1.6' × 0.9'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 80.96
- Image
- NGC496 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- SAcd
- catalog code
- LEDA 5061
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- redshift
- 0.020034
- apparent magnitude
- 10.728
- Commons category
- NGC 496
- right ascension
- 20.7984083
- declination
- 33.5292472
- radial velocity
- 6006
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 496, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5037, UGC 927 or GC 288, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 250 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 496” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.