NGC 501
| Galaxy NGC 501 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 23 m 22.4 s |
| declination | + 33 ° 25 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.5 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 507 group LGG 26 |
| Redshift | 0.016712 +/- 0.000050 |
| Radial velocity | 5010 +/- 15 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(230 ± 16) x 10 6 ly (70.6 ± 4.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | RJ Mitchell |
| Discovery date | October 28, 1856 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 501 • PGC 5082 • CGCG 502-062 • 2MASX J01232240 + 3325582 • GC 284 • LDCE 74 NED068 | |
NGC 501 is a compact elliptical galaxy of the Hubble type E0 in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 230 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 35,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 496 , NGC 498 , NGC 499 , IC 1684 .
The object was discovered on October 28, 1856 by RJ Mitchell , an assistant to William Parsons .
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