Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 24 47.7
- Declination
- +09 ° 32 ′ 20 ″
- Redshift
- 2403 ± 5 km / s
- Distance
- 86.1 ± 13.7 Mly (26.4 ± 4.2 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(rs)0+
- Apparent size v
- 2.8 ′ × 2.8 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 524 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is at a distance of about 90 million light-years away from Earth. In the central bulge of the galaxy is visible gas forming a spiral structure. It is the largest galaxy in the small NGC 524 group of galaxies, which is associated with NGC 488 and its group. It was discovered by William Herschel on 4 September 1786.
Observation
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q178583” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.