Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.017
- Morphology
- SO
- Coordinates
- RA 21.1604° · Dec 33.4728°
View on SIMBAD →
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 24 38.6
- Declination
- +33 ° 28 ′ 22 ″
- Redshift
- 0.01700 ± 0.00007
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (5053 ± 21) km/s
- Distance
- 228 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 1.1'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 73.49
- Image
- NGC 0515 SDSS.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 316857643145486208
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-13
- apparent magnitude
- 12.408
- Commons category
- NGC 515
- right ascension
- 21.16044629201560
- declination
- 33.47276654104720
- redshift
- 0.01700
- radial velocity
- 5053
- epoch
- J2000.0
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 515, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5201 or UGC 956, is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 228 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on 13 September 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 515” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.