Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 11.5
- Declination
- +33 ° 27 ′ 28 ″
- Redshift
- +0.014691 ± 0.000117
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (4372 ± 35.2) km/s
- Distance
- 197 Mly
- Type
- E-S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.7' × 1.3'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- low-ionization nuclear emission-line region
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 59.47
- Image
- NGC 0499 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.014553
- galaxy morphological type
- E5A
- catalog code
- GC 289
- radial velocity
- 4375
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- apparent magnitude
- 11.140
- Commons category
- NGC 499
- right ascension
- 20.7979220
- declination
- 33.4602020
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 499, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5060, IC 1686 or GC 289, is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 197 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 12 September, 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.
The NGC 499 Group is named after the galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 499” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.