Astronomy:NGC 551

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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
NGC 551
NGC551 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 551
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationAndromeda
Right ascension 01h 27m 40.8s[1]
Declination+37° 10′ 58″[1]
Redshift0.017352[2]
Helio radial velocity5188 km/s[2]
Distance205 Mly (62.8 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)12.0[2]
Characteristics
TypeSBbc[3]
Other designations
UGC 1034, MCG+06-04-027, PGC 5450[2]

NGC 551 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It is estimated to be about 205 million light-years from the Milky Way.[3] The object was discovered on 21, September 1786 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.[4][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "NGC 551". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+551. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Results for object NGC 0551 (NGC 551)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20551&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1. 
  4. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+551&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES. 
  5. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 551". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC551. 
  6. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 551 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC551. 

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