Astronomy:NGC 532
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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
| NGC 532 | |
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 SDSS image of NGC 532 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Pisces |
| Right ascension | 01h 25m 17.348s[1] |
| Declination | +09° 15′ 50.71″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.00762[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 2276 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 105.1 Mly (32.21 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.20[4] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.94[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | Sab?[5] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 982, MCG+01-04-056, PGC 5264[2] | |
NGC 532 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy is approximately 100 million light-years (30 Megaparsecs) away from the Earth, and was discovered on September 21, 1786, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NGC 532". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+532.
- ↑ Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal 152 (2): 21. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. 50. Bibcode: 2016AJ....152...50T.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Search specification: NGC 532". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20532. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ↑ "Results for object NGC 0532 (NGC 532)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20532&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 532". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC532.
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