Key facts
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Right ascension
- 01 19 34.738
- Declination
- −58 ° 31 ′ 27.92 ″
- Redshift
- 0.01846 ± 0.00010
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (5128 ± 23) km/s
- Distance
- 218 Mly
- Type
- SA(r)0- pec?
- Apparent size v
- 1.9′ × 1.4′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Distance from Earth
- 71.13
- Image
- NGC 484 legacy dr10.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4909358278883934848
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-10-28
- redshift
- 0.017215
- apparent magnitude
- 9.095
- right ascension
- 19.89474116617760
- declination
- -58.52442101655590
- radial velocity
- 5128
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 484
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 484 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Tucana. It is located approximately 218 million light-years from Earth and was discovered on October 28, 1834 by astronomer John Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 484” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.