NGC 551

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NGC 551
NGC551 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 551
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Andromeda
Right ascension 01h 27m 40.8s [1]
Declination +37° 10′ 58″ [1]
Redshift 0.017352 [2]
Helio radial velocity 5188 km/s [2]
Distance 205  Mly (62.8  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (B)12.0 [2]
Characteristics
Type 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]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "NGC 551". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2022-11-01.
  3. 1 2 3 "Results for object NGC 0551 (NGC 551)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
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  5. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 551". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
  6. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 551 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2022-11-01.


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