PGC 9199

GALAXYSpiral galaxy SA

ILLUSTRATION FROM HUBBLE TYPE SA · MAJOR AXIS 0.575′ · AXIS RATIO 0.93 · POSITION ANGLE 86°

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OVERVIEW

] GALAXY

PGC 9199 is a spiral galaxy SA in the constellation Cetus, 295.2 from Earth, shining at apparent magnitude 15.04 (). It is catalogued as 2MASX 02251747+0426364 and WISExSCOS J022517.44+042636.5.

WHAT IT IS
Spiral galaxy
HOW FAR
295.2

The light arriving now left it that long ago.

HOW BIG ON THE SKY
35

Small enough that the full Moon would cover it several times over.

HOW BRIGHT (B)

Faint: it takes a large telescope.

WHERE TO LOOK
Cetus

The patch of sky it sits in, as seen from Earth.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see PGC 9199 for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

TONIGHT

Say where you are, and this line says when PGC 9199 is worth going out for.

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THROUGH AN EYEPIECE

] 150 MM TELESCOPE · 25 MM EYEPIECE
NE
FIELD 1.08°

Fainter than the largest telescope modelled here reaches. PGC 9199 covers 35″ of sky against a of 1.08°, so at 48× it is a speck in a wide field.

48×
1.08
1.25
13.0
SIZE ON THE SKY
35
FILLS OF THE FIELD
1% of the width
APPARENT MAGNITUDE ()
15.04 · too faint for this

PGC 9199 is not a point of light, so the limit above is the wrong one to hold it against: the same brightness spread over 35″ of sky is harder than a star of it, and goes first. Catalogued sizes are measured to a photographic contour, and the part an eye sees is usually smaller.

FIND IT ON THE SKY MAP ↗
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APPARENT PLACE

] EQUINOX J2026.7

Where a telescope has to be pointed today, which is not quite where the catalogue records the object: the coordinate grid itself has turned since the year 2000 the catalogue is referred to.

RIGHT ASCENSION
DECLINATION
GRID TURNED SINCE
22.2
PROPER MOTION SINCE
none published

Computed for 2026-08-27 00:00 UT. No proper motion is published for PGC 9199, so nothing here moves the object; what separates this from the catalogued position above is the coordinate grid turning under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. Aberration and refraction are not included, and neither is parallax; each is under an arcminute, which is also about as well as the catalogued position is known. The same figure for any date.

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CATALOG DATA

] 12 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

WHAT IT IS MADE OF

What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.

Hubble type
Stellar mass
2.24×10¹⁰ ±2.8×10⁹

HOW BRIGHT IT IS

What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.

Apparent magnitude ()
Apparent magnitude ()
Apparent magnitude ( band)
Apparent magnitude ()

WHERE IT IS AND HOW IT MOVES

Position, motion across the sky and the size it covers on it. These are measurements of the object as seen from here, so every one of them depends on where here is.

Redshift (z)
Redshift (z, CMB frame)
Major axis
0.57518
Minor axis
0.537448
86

WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM

Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.

Morphology from
SIMBAD (2019MNRAS.488.2175B, quality C)
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 3 DESIGNATIONS
  • 2MASX 2MASX 02251747+0426364
  • PGC PGC 9199
  • WISExSCOS WISExSCOS J022517.44+042636.5
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 4 SERVICES

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. PGC 9199 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/pgc-9199
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_pgc-9199,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{PGC 9199}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/pgc-9199},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from GLADE+ (Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era).}
}

The values above were taken from GLADE+ (Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era) — VizieR terms; cite Dalya+ 2022 (2022MNRAS.514.1403D). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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