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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 30.7
- Declination
- +11 ° 17 ′ 28 ″
- Redshift
- 0.03723 ± 0.00015
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (10954 ± 44) km/s
- Distance
- 499 Mly
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 1.1'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0511 SDSS2.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2586265723232384256
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-10-26
- redshift
- 0.037299
- apparent magnitude
- 10.520
- Commons category
- NGC 511
- right ascension
- 20.87803725317770
- declination
- 11.29097596288710
- radial velocity
- 11178
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 511, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5103 or UGC 936, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 499 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 26 October 1876 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 511” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.