NGC 487
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 487 is referenced by 953 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 483.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1885, Barred spiral galaxies and Cetus.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 21 55.1
- Declination
- −16 ° 22 ′ 13 ″
- Redshift
- 0.019844/5949 km/s
- Distance
- 250 million ly
- Type
- SB(r)a
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' x 0.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 79.58
- Image
- NGC 0487 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2451599085251097856
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 10.898
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- right ascension
- 20.47958204175370
- declination
- -16.37032592027670
- radial velocity
- 5931
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 487
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 487 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 250 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cetus. NGC 487's calculated velocity is 5949 km/s. NGC 487 was discovered by American astronomer Francis Leavenworth on November 28, 1885.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 487” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Connections
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