Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 24 45.9
- Declination
- +09 ° 59 ′ 42 ″
- Redshift
- (0.009256 ± 0.000160)
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (2762 ± 48) km/s
- Distance
- 122 Mly
- Type
- Sbc
- Apparent size v
- 2.8' × 0.5'
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 41.50
- Image
- NGC 0522 SDSS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 2762
- catalog code
- [HDL96] 436 13
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- time of discovery or invention
- 1862-09-25
- redshift
- 0.009256
- apparent magnitude
- 9.439
- Commons category
- NGC 522
- right ascension
- 21.1910625
- declination
- 9.9946222
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Article
NGC 522, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5218 or UGC 970, is a spiral galaxy located approximately 122 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on 25 September 1862 by astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest.
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