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NGC505

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:22:57.1
Declination: +9:28:8
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, stellar
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 505

18" (12/3/05): faint, very small, round, 20" diameter.  Contains a faint stellar nucleus with direct vision.  Located 7' WNW of NGC 509 in the NGC 524 group.

17.5" (10/17/87): very faint, extremely small, round.  NGC 509 lies 7' ESE.

13" (8/24/84): extremely faint, slightly elongated ~E-W?  Located 7' WNW of NGC 509 in the NGC 524 group.