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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 22 57.10
- Declination
- +09 ° 28 ′ 08.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5563 ± 29 km/s
- Distance
- 234 M ly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 0.9 x 0.6
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 505 is a lenticular galaxy approximately 234 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on October 1, 1864.
NGC 505 and NGC 509 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1037041” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.