Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 24 26.8
- Declination
- +33 ° 47 ′ 58 ″
- Redshift
- 0.019560 ± 0.000357
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (5807 ± 107) km/s
- Distance
- 262 Mly
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 0.9' × 0.6'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 78.77
- Image
- NGC513-HST-606.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.01956
- Commons category
- NGC 513
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 316913924396895616
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-13
- apparent magnitude
- 12.360
- radial velocity
- 5807
- right ascension
- 21.11168966053600
- declination
- 33.79950702405530
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 513, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5174 or UGC 953, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It is located approximately 262 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 13 September 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 513” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.