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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 23 24.10
- Declination
- +09 ° 26 ′ 01.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2261 ± 5 km/s
- Distance
- 87 M ly
- Type
- S0?
- Apparent size v
- 1.6 x 0.6
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 509 is a lenticular galaxy approximately 87 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on October 1, 1864.
NGC 509 and NGC 505 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 509” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.