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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 00 14 40.2
- Declination
- +18 ° 34 ′ 48 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5390 km/s
- Distance
- 243,000,000 ly (73,000,000 Parsecs )
- Type
- Sc
- Size
- 150,000
- Apparent size v
- 2.6' × 0.5'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 52 (PGC 978) is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered on September 18, 1784, by William Herschel. He described it as "very faint, small, extended."
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q50646” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.