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'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 41.50
- Image
- NGC 0522 SDSS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 2762
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- [HDL96] 436 13
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- 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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 522” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.