UGC 480
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 46 32.0
- Declination
- +36 ° 19 ′ 32 ″
- Distance
- ~500 Mly
- Type
- S
- Apparent size v
- 1.5' × 1.2'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- low-surface-brightness galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0218 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.037426
- declination
- 36.3595806
- catalog code
- Z 519-17
- right ascension
- 10.4359292
- radial velocity
- 4894
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- apparent magnitude
- 12.502
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 218
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-10-17
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 218, also known as UGC 480, is a spiral galaxy located approximately 500 million light-years from the Sun in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on October 17, 1876 by Édouard Stephan, and is interacting with the galaxy PGC 2726.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “UGC 480” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.