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Vinony's link graph records 891 inbound references to NGC 498, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 496.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1856, Discoveries by R. J. Mitchell (astronomer) and Lenticular galaxies.
Vinony links it to 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiC
- Redshift
- z = 0.020518
- Coordinates
- RA 20.7969° · Dec 33.4893°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 11.3
- Declination
- 33 ° 29 ′ 22 ″
- Redshift
- 0.020518/6151 km/s
- Distance
- 261.13 Mly
- Group or cluster
- NGC 507 Group
- Type
- S0
- Size
- ~19,560 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.25 x 0.25
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0498 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 5059
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1856-10-23
- redshift
- 0.020518
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- apparent magnitude
- 11.934
- Commons category
- NGC 498
- right ascension
- 20.7970750
- declination
- 33.4892472
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 6088
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 498 is a lenticular galaxy located about 260 million light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Pisces. NGC 498 was discovered by astronomer R. J. Mitchell on October 23, 1856.
NGC 498 is a member of the NGC 507 Group which is part of the Perseus–Pisces Supercluster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 498” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.