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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 24.10
- Declination
- +09 ° 26 ′ 01.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2261 ± 5 km/s
- Distance
- 87 M ly
- Type
- S0?
- Apparent size v
- 1.6 x 0.6
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 30.59
- Image
- NGC 0509 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.007542
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2579193423924381056
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-10-01
- galaxy morphological type
- S0:
- apparent magnitude
- 10.677
- Commons category
- NGC 509
- right ascension
- 20.85047563510750
- declination
- 9.43363495551890
- radial velocity
- 2440
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 509 is a lenticular galaxy approximately 87 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on October 1, 1864.
NGC 509 and NGC 505 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 509” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.