NGC 519

NGC 519, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5182, is an elliptical galaxy located approximately 242 million light-years from the Solar System^[4] in the constellation Cetus.^[2] It was discovered on 20 November 1886 by astronomer Lewis Swift.^[5]

NGC 519
NGC 519 as seen on SDSS
Observation data (J2000[1] epoch)
Constellation	Cetus[2]
Right ascension	01h 24m 28.6s[3]
Declination	−01° 38′ 29″[3]
Redshift	0.017756 ± 0.000260[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	(5276 ± 78) km/s[1]
Distance	242 Mly[4]
Apparent magnitude (V)	14.4[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	15.4[2]
Characteristics
Type	E[2]
Apparent size (V)	0.5' × 0.3'[2]
Other designations
PGC 5182, MGC +00-04-116, 2MASS J01242863-0138284[1][5]

Observation history

Swift discovered the object along with NGC 530, 538 and 557 using a 16-inch refractor telescope at the Warner Observatory.^[6] It was later catalogued by John Louis Emil Dreyer in the New General Catalogue, where the galaxy was described as "most extremely faint, very small, round, very difficult".^[5]

Description

The galaxy appears very dim in the sky as it only has an apparent visual magnitude of 14.4. It can be classified as type E using the Hubble Sequence.^[2] The object's distance of roughly 240 million light-years from the Solar System can be estimated using its redshift and Hubble's law.^[4]

NGC 519 (SDSS)

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)