Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 24 52.9
- Declination
- +09 ° 42 ′ 12 ″
- Redshift
- 0.007158 ± 0.000167
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (2138 ± 50) km/s
- Distance
- 95.6 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.5' × 0.7'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 30.7
- Image
- NGC 0525 SDSS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 21.2204417
- declination
- 9.7032389
- radial velocity
- 2138
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- LEDA 5232
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1862-09-25
- redshift
- 0.007158
- apparent magnitude
- 10.606
- Commons category
- NGC 525
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 525, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5232 or UGC 972, is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 95.6 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on 25 September 1862 by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest. The galaxy has a faint outer ring structure, which gives it the "Lenticular" type name.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 525” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.