Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 21 15.723
- Declination
- +03 ° 51 ′ 44.09 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5221 km/s
- Distance
- 240 Mly (74 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)bc:
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 479 (also known as UGC 893, MCG 1-4-31, ZWG 411.31, PGC 4905) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on October 27, 1864. It is about 240 million light-years away from Earth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 479” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.