NGC 489
| Galaxy NGC 489 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 21 m 53.9 s |
| declination | + 09 ° 12 ′ 24 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 120 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 524 group LGG 23 |
| Redshift | 0.008362 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 2507 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(116 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (35.6 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | December 22, 1862 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 489 • UGC 908 • PGC 4957 • CGCG 411-034 • MCG + 01-04-034 • 2MASX J01215390 + 0912233 • GC 274 • GALEX ASC J012153.87 + 091223.7 • LDCE 85 NED005 | |
NGC 489 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 116 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 55,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 502 , NGC 505 , NGC 509 , NGC 518 .
The object was discovered on December 22, 1862 by the German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest .
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