Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 22.4
- Declination
- +33 ° 25 ′ 59 ″
- Redshift
- 0.016561 ± 0.000227
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (4924 ± 68) km/s
- Distance
- 224 Mly
- Type
- E0
- Apparent size v
- 0.5' × 0.5'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 67.63
- Image
- NGC 0501 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 316880732889672576
- right ascension
- 20.84335692742150
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1856-10-28
- redshift
- 0.016301
- apparent magnitude
- 13.314
- declination
- 33.43296154370520
- Commons category
- NGC 501
- radial velocity
- 4924
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 501, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5082 or GC 284, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 224 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 28 October 1856 by Irish astronomer R. J. Mitchell.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 501” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.