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Vinony's link graph records 984 inbound references to NGC 561, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), NGC 241 and NGC 945.
It sits within the topics Andromeda (constellation), Astronomical objects discovered in 1862 and Barred spiral galaxies.
Vinony links it to 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.015758295911789455
- Morphology
- SBa
- Coordinates
- RA 22.0782° · Dec 34.3087°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 28 18
- Declination
- 01 ° 28 ′ 18 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4687 ± 4 km/s
- Surface brightness
- 23.44 mag/arcsec
- Type
- (R)SB(s)a
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 63.15
- Image
- NGC 0561 SDSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- catalog code
- LEDA 5489
- time of discovery or invention
- 1862-08-23
- galaxy morphological type
- SBa
- apparent magnitude
- 10.080
- Commons category
- NGC 561
- right ascension
- 22.0782125
- declination
- 34.3087083
- redshift
- 0.015577
- radial velocity
- 4911
- epoch
- J2000.0
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 561 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 4,395 ± 20 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 64.8 ± 4.6 Mpc (~211 million ly). NGC 561 was discovered by Prussian astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest in 1862.
The luminosity class of NGC 561 is I and it has a broad HI1 line.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 561” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.