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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 22 57.10
- Declination
- +09 ° 28 ′ 08.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5563 ± 29 km/s
- Distance
- 234 M ly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.9 x 0.6
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0505 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2579197100416385408
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-10-01
- redshift
- 0.018486
- apparent magnitude
- 10.904
- Commons category
- NGC 505
- right ascension
- 20.73794500128470
- declination
- 9.46890433095110
- radial velocity
- 5491
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 505 is a lenticular galaxy approximately 234 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on October 1, 1864.
NGC 505 and NGC 509 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 505” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.