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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 502 is referenced by 892 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), Q1037041 and epoch.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1862, Discoveries by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest and Lenticular galaxies.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 22 55.5
- Declination
- +09 ° 02 ′ 57 ″
- Redshift
- 0.008279 ± 0.000163
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (2472 ± 49) km/s
- Distance
- 113 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 1.0'
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 33.41
- Image
- NGC 0502 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1862-09-25
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- [HDL96] 411 87
- redshift
- 0.008342
- radial velocity
- 2472
- apparent magnitude
- 9.737
- Commons category
- NGC 502
- right ascension
- 20.7314167
- declination
- 9.0491694
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 502, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5034 or UGC 922, is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 113 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 25 September 1862 by German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest. When the Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies was published between 1962 and 1974, the identifications of NGC 502 and NGC 505 were reversed. In reality, NGC 502 is equal to MGC +01-04-041 and not MCG +01-04-043 as noted in the catalogue.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 502” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.