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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.01975
- Morphology
- E-SO
- Coordinates
- RA 20.8684° · Dec 33.3318°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 28.4
- Declination
- +33 ° 19 ′ 54 ″
- Redshift
- 0.01975 ± 0.00007
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (5862 ± 21) km/s
- Distance
- 265 Mly
- Type
- E-S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.9' × 0.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 80.79
- Image
- NGC 0503 SDSS.jpg
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- declination
- 33.3317306
- catalog code
- LEDA 5086
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1863-08-13
- apparent magnitude
- 11.068
- Commons category
- NGC 503
- right ascension
- 20.8685708
- radial velocity
- 5862
- redshift
- 0.01975
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 503, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5086 or GC 5169, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 265 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 13 August 1863 by German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 503” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.