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Vinony's link graph records 891 inbound references to NGC 525, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1862, Discoveries by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest and Lenticular galaxies.
Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 24 52.9
- Declination
- +09 ° 42 ′ 12 ″
- Redshift
- 0.007158 ± 0.000167
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- (2138 ± 50) km/s
- Distance
- 95.6 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.5' × 0.7'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 30.7
- Image
- NGC 0525 SDSS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 21.2204417
- declination
- 9.7032389
- radial velocity
- 2138
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- LEDA 5232
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1862-09-25
- redshift
- 0.007158
- apparent magnitude
- 10.606
- Commons category
- NGC 525
- epoch
- J2000.0
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 525, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5232 or UGC 972, is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 95.6 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on 25 September 1862 by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest. The galaxy has a faint outer ring structure, which gives it the "Lenticular" type name.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 525” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.