NGC 480
| Galaxy NGC 480 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | whale |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 20 m 34.4 s |
| declination | -09 ° 52 ′ 49 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB? A? |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.6 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 65 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.042953 ± 0.000091 |
| Radial velocity | 12,877 ± 27 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(577 ± 40) · 10 6 Lj (176.8 ± 12.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Francis P. Leavenworth |
| Discovery date | 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 480 • PGC 4845 • 2MASX J01203441-0952487 • GALEX ASC J012034.38-095247.8 | |
NGC 480 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sa in the constellation Cetus south of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 577 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 85,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky is the galaxy NGC 481 .
The object was discovered in 1886 by the American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth .
Web links
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