NGC 522
| Galaxy NGC 522 |
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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 45.8 s |
| declination | + 09 ° 59 ′ 41 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.8 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 33 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 23 |
| Redshift | 0.009090 +/- 0.000011 |
| Radial velocity | 2725 +/- 3 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(126 ± 9) · 10 6 ly (38.6 ± 2.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | September 25, 1862 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 522 • UGC 970 • PGC 5218 • CGCG 436-043 • MCG + 02-04-038 • IRAS 01221 + 0944 • 2MASX J01244585 + 0959406 • GC 305 • FGC 163 • LEDA 5218 • LDCE 85 NED011 | |
NGC 522 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is around 126 million light years away and has a diameter of around 100,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 525 , IC 101 , IC 102 , IC 114 .
The object was discovered on September 25, 1862 by the German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest .