File:NGC_52_Legacy_DR9.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 00 14 40.2
- Declination
- +18 ° 34 ′ 48 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5390 km/s
- Distance
- 243,000,000 ly (73,000,000 Parsecs )
- Type
- Sc
- Size
- 150,000
- Apparent size v
- 2.6' × 0.5'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 72.69
- Image
- NGC52 - SDSS DR14.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- Commons category
- NGC 52
- catalog code
- WEB 4974
- apparent magnitude
- 9.495
- redshift
- 0.017986
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-18
- radial velocity
- 5407
- right ascension
- 3.6670875
- declination
- 18.5819861
- epoch
- J2000.0
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 52 (PGC 978) is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered on September 18, 1784, by William Herschel. He described it as "very faint, small, extended."
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 52” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.