NGC 550

NGC 550 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be about 300 million light-years from the Milky Way[3] and has a diameter of approximately 110,000 light years. The object was discovered on October 8, 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.[4][5][6]

NGC 550
SDSS image of NGC 550
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationCetus
Right ascension01h 26m 42.560s[1]
Declination+02° 01′ 20.52″[1]
Redshift0.019560[2]
Helio radial velocity5807 km/s[2]
Distance303.7 Mly (93.10 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)15.0[2]
Characteristics
TypeSB(s)a?[3]
Other designations
UGC 1021, MCG+00-04-146, PGC 5374[2]

See also

References
  1. Skrutskie, M.; et al. (2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708.
  2. "NGC 550". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  3. "Results for object NGC 0550 (NGC 550)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  4. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  5. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 550". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  6. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 550 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  • Media related to NGC 550 at Wikimedia Commons


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