NGC 19
| Galaxy NGC 19 |
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| SDSS image of the galaxy NGC 19 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 10 m 40.9 s |
| declination | + 32 ° 58 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (r) bc LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 40.5 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015971 ± 0.000010 |
| Radial velocity | +4788 ± 3 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(222 ± 16) · 10 6 ly (68.1 ± 4.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis A. Swift |
| Discovery date | September 20, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 19 • UGC 98 • PGC 759 • CGCG 499-065 • MCG + 05-01-046 • IRAS 00080 + 3242 • 2MASX J00104087 + 3258592 • Kaz 18, Swift II | |
NGC 19 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Andromeda in the northern sky . It is an estimated 222 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 70,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 6 , NGC 13 , NGC 21 , NGC 7836 .
The object was discovered on September 20, 1885 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift .