NGC 551

NGC 551
SDSS image of NGC 551
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Andromeda
Right ascension	01^h 27^m 40.8^s[1]
Declination	+37° 10′ 58″[1]
Redshift	0.017352[2]
Heliocentric 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]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References

1. 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.
2. "NGC 551". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
3. "Results for object NGC 0551 (NGC 551)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
4. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
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.

External links

• Media related to NGC 551 at Wikimedia Commons