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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 495 is referenced by 891 other articles, and connects out to Q1037041, NGC 502 and list of NGC objects (1–1000).
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1784, Barred spiral galaxies and Discoveries by William Herschel.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 22 56.0
- Declination
- +33 ° 28 ′ 18 ″
- Redshift
- +0.013679 ± 0.000073
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (4073 ± 22) km/s
- Distance
- 184 Mly
- Type
- SB0-a
- Apparent size v
- 1.2' × 0.8'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 55.68
- Image
- NGC 0495 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0a
- redshift
- 0.013679
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 316879014902749440
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- apparent magnitude
- 12.263
- Commons category
- NGC 495
- right ascension
- 20.73315900894860
- declination
- 33.47140000768360
- radial velocity
- 4073
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 495, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5037, UGC 920 or GC 278, is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 184 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 12 September 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.
Observation history
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