Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 24 26.8
- Declination
- +33 ° 47 ′ 58 ″
- Redshift
- 0.019560 ± 0.000357
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (5807 ± 107) km/s
- Distance
- 262 Mly
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 0.9' × 0.6'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 513, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5174 or UGC 953, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It is located approximately 262 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 13 September 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1037089” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.