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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 496 is referenced by 892 other articles, and connects out to Q1037041, list of NGC objects (1–1000) and spiral galaxy.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1784, Discoveries by William Herschel and NGC objects.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 11.6
- Declination
- +33 ° 31 ′ 45 ″
- Redshift
- +0.020258 ± 0.000093
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (6011.7 ± 27.8) km/s
- Distance
- 250 Mly
- Type
- Sbc
- Apparent size v
- 1.6' × 0.9'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 80.96
- Image
- NGC496 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- SAcd
- catalog code
- LEDA 5061
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- redshift
- 0.020034
- apparent magnitude
- 10.728
- Commons category
- NGC 496
- right ascension
- 20.7984083
- declination
- 33.5292472
- radial velocity
- 6006
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 496, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5037, UGC 927 or GC 288, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 250 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 496” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.