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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'
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 72.69
- Image
- NGC52 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S
- Commons category
- NGC 52
- catalog code
- WEB 4974
- apparent magnitude
- 9.495
- redshift
- 0.017986
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-18
- radial velocity
- 5407
- right ascension
- 3.6670875
- declination
- 18.5819861
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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."
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