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'
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Wikidata facts
- 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
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- apparent magnitude
- 11.140
- Commons category
- NGC 499
- right ascension
- 20.7979220
- declination
- 33.4602020
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Article
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.
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