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
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- 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
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- 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
- epoch
- J2000.0
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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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 495” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.