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'
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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.