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NGC 551

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NGC 551

SDSS image of NGC 551

Observation data (J2000 epoch)

Right ascension

01^h27^m 40.8^s^[1]

+37° 10′ 58″^[1]

0.017352^[2]

Heliocentric radial velocity

5188 km/s^[2]

205 Mly (62.8 Mpc)^[3]

Apparent magnitude (B)

12.0^[2]

Characteristics

SBbc^[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[edit]

List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "NGC 551". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2022-11-01.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Results for object NGC 0551 (NGC 551)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2022-11-01.

^ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-01.

^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 551". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2022-11-01.

^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 551 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2022-11-01.

External links[edit]

Media related to NGC 551 at Wikimedia Commons

New General Catalogue 500 to 999

500

Astronomical catalog

List of NGC objects

Constellation of Andromeda

Adhil

Andromeda in Chinese astronomy

List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies

List of stars in Andromeda

α (Alpheratz)

A

b

c

υ Per (Nembus)

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

6 Per

R

T

U

W

Z

1

16175 (Buna)

Other

3XMM J004232.1+411314

HAT-P-6 (Sterrennacht)

NGC 44

WISE J0005+3737

WISE J004945.61+215120.0

14 Andromedae b

κ Andromedae b

υ Andromedae b

c

d

c

206

Other

Mayall II

NGC

7662

32

NGC

5

11

20

529

Numbered

I

V

X

Other

3C 66A

Andromeda Galaxy

Galaxy clusters

Abell 262

Astronomical events

GRB 101225A

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