Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiC
- Redshift
- z = 0.020518
- Coordinates
- RA 20.7969° · Dec 33.4893°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 11.3
- Declination
- 33 ° 29 ′ 22 ″
- Redshift
- 0.020518/6151 km/s
- Distance
- 261.13 Mly
- Group or cluster
- NGC 507 Group
- Type
- S0
- Size
- ~19,560 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.25 x 0.25
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0498 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 5059
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1856-10-23
- redshift
- 0.020518
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- apparent magnitude
- 11.934
- Commons category
- NGC 498
- right ascension
- 20.7970750
- declination
- 33.4892472
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 6088
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 498 is a lenticular galaxy located about 260 million light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Pisces. NGC 498 was discovered by astronomer R. J. Mitchell on October 23, 1856.
NGC 498 is a member of the NGC 507 Group which is part of the Perseus–Pisces Supercluster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 498” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.