NGC 522, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5218 or UGC 970, is a spiral galaxy located approximately 122 million light-years from the Solar System[3] in the constellation Pisces.

As the position matches both UGC 962 and PGC 5190, the objects are generally referred to as synonymous.

[5] NGC 522 was later catalogued by John Louis Emil Dreyer in the New General Catalogue, where the galaxy was described as "extremely faint, pretty large, irregular figure, perhaps cluster plus nebula".

It can be classified as spiral galaxy of type Sbc using the Hubble Sequence.

[2] The object's distance of roughly 120 million light-years from the Solar System can be estimated using its redshift and Hubble's law.