NGC 48

The New General Catalogue object NGC 48 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 79.3 million light-years from the Solar System^[2] in the constellation Andromeda.

NGC 48
NGC 48 (PanSTARRS)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Andromeda
Right ascension	00h 14m 02.2s[1]
Declination	+48° 14′ 05″[1]
Redshift	0.005924[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	1776 ± 8 km/s[1]
Distance	79.3 Mly[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)	14.4[1]
Characteristics
Type	SABbc[1]
Apparent size (V)	1.4' x 0.9'[1]
Other designations
PGC 929

See also

• Spiral galaxy
• List of NGC objects (1–1000)
• Andromeda (constellation)