Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 24 43.8
- Declination
- +33 ° 25 ′ 46 ″
- Redshift
- 0.014003 ± 0.000193
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (4169 ± 58) km/s
- Distance
- 188 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 0.5'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 517, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5214 or UGC 960, is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 188 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on 13 September 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 517” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.