NGC 514
| Galaxy NGC 514 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 24 m 03.9 s |
| declination | + 12 ° 55 ′ 03 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.7 ′ × 3 ′ |
| Position angle | 110 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | isolated |
| Redshift | 0.008246 ± 0.000005 |
| Radial velocity | 2472 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(115 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (35.2 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | October 16, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 514 • UGC 947 • PGC 5139 • CGCG 436-038 • MCG + 02-04-035 • IRAS 01214 + 1239 • 2MASX J01240390 + 1255024 • GC 298 • H II 252 • h 112 • HIPASS J0124 + 12 • 2MIG 152 | |
NGC 514 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 115 million light years from the Milky Way and about 125,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on October 16, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
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