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NGC509
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:23:24.1
Declination: +9:26:0
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 13.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, E
Sub-type: SB0-a
Steve's Notes
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NGC 509
18" (12/3/05): faint, fairly small, elongated nearly 2:1 ~E-W, 1.0'x0.5', broad weak concentration. Situated between two mag 13.8/14.3 stars less than 2' SW and NNE. NGC 505 lies 7' WNW. Member of the NGC 524 group.
17.5" (10/17/87): faint, small, elongated ~E-W. Located between a mag 14 star 1.9' SW and a mag 13.5 star 1.4' N. Forms a pair with NGC 505 7' WNW in the NGC 524 group.
13" (8/24/84): very faint, small, slightly elongated ~E-W. Two faint stars are north and south.