UGC 9751

GALAXYBarred spiral galaxy SB

ILLUSTRATION FROM HUBBLE TYPE SB · MAJOR AXIS 1.06′ · AXIS RATIO 0.21 · POSITION ANGLE 119°

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OVERVIEW

] GALAXY

UGC 9751 is a barred spiral galaxy SB in the constellation Virgo, 74.34 from Earth, shining at apparent magnitude 14.77 (). It is catalogued as PGC 54171 and WISExSCOS J151058.56+012614.6.

WHAT IT IS
Barred spiral galaxy
HOW FAR
74.34

The light arriving now left it that long ago.

HOW BIG ON THE SKY
1.1

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

HOW BRIGHT (B)

Faint: it takes a large telescope.

WHERE TO LOOK
Virgo

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 UGC 9751 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 UGC 9751 is worth going out for.

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THROUGH AN EYEPIECE

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

Near the faint end of this catalogue: a 300 mm telescope reaches it and a 150 mm one does not. UGC 9751 covers 1.1′ 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
1.1
FILLS OF THE FIELD
2% of the width
APPARENT MAGNITUDE ()
14.77 · too faint for this

UGC 9751 is not a point of light, so the limit above is the wrong one to hold it against: the same brightness spread over 1.1′ 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
21.4
PROPER MOTION SINCE
none published

Computed for 2026-08-27 00:00 UT. No proper motion is published for UGC 9751, 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

] 9 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
4.67×10⁷ ±2.8×10⁷

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 ()

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
1.05504
Minor axis
0.221769
119

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..590B, quality C)
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 2 DESIGNATIONS
  • PGC PGC 54171
  • WISExSCOS WISExSCOS J151058.56+012614.6
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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. UGC 9751 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/ugc-9751
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_ugc-9751,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{UGC 9751}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/ugc-9751},
  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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