Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 40.6
- Declination
- +33 ° 16 ′ 49 ″
- Redshift
- 0.01835 ± 0.00007
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (5451 ± 21) km/s
- Distance
- 247 Mly
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 1.1'
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 74.53
- Image
- NGC 0508 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 316826032186208768
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- apparent magnitude
- 9.725
- Commons category
- NGC 508
- right ascension
- 20.91905708574030
- declination
- 33.28069197307300
- radial velocity
- 5451
- redshift
- 0.01835
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 508, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5099 or UGC 939, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 247 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 12 September 1784 by British astronomer William Herschel.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 508” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.