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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 23 59.8
- Declination
- +33 ° 23 ′ 59.8 ″
- Redshift
- 0.016175 ± 0.000107
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (4810 ± 32) km/s
- Distance
- 217 Mly
- Type
- Sab
- Apparent size v
- 1.6' × 0.4'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 65.75
- Image
- NGC 0512 SDSS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 20.9990333
- declination
- 33.9078167
- catalog code
- LEDA 5132
- galaxy morphological type
- Sab
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-11-00
- redshift
- 0.016201
- apparent magnitude
- 9.771
- Commons category
- NGC 512
- radial velocity
- 4810
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 512, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5132 or UGC 944, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It is located approximately 217 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 17 November 1827 by astronomer John Herschel.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 512” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.