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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 27.9
- Declination
- +33 ° 12 ′ 16 ″
- Redshift
- 0.014096 ± 0.000270
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (4196 ± 81) km/s
- Distance
- 189 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.7' × 0.4'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 504, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5084 or UGC 935, is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 189 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on 22 November 1827 by astronomer John Herschel. The object was listed twice in the General Catalogue, precursor of the New General Catalogue, as both GC 291 and GC 292.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 504” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.