NGC 492
| Galaxy NGC 492 |
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| SDSS image of NGC 492 (left) & NGC 486 (right) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 22 m 13.5 s |
| declination | + 05 ° 25 ′ 01 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB? |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.7 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 120 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | WBL 037-003 |
| Redshift | 0.047449 ± 0.000120 |
| Radial velocity | 14,225 ± 36 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(639 ± 45) · 10 6 Lj (195.9 ± 13.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Bindon B. Stoney |
| Discovery date | December 6, 1850 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 492 • PGC 4976 • CGCG 411-036 • MCG + 01-04-038 • 2MASX J01221356 + 0525012 • GC 280 • GALEX ASC J012213.59 + 052500.9 • KIG 50 | |
NGC 492 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble-type SB? in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 639 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 130,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 486 , NGC 488 , NGC 490 , NGC 500 , among others .
The object was discovered on December 6, 1850 by the Irish astronomer Bindon Blood Stoney, an assistant to William Parsons .
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