Astronomy:NGC 92

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Short description: Interacting spiral galaxy in Robert's Quartet
NGC 92
NGC 92
H-alpha image of NGC 92 with VLT
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationPhoenix
Right ascension 00h 21m 31.713s[1]
Declination−48° 37′ 29.23″[1]
Redshift0.011278 ± 0.000037[2]
Distance141 Mly (43.2 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)13.81[3]
Characteristics
TypeSAa: pec[3]
Apparent size (V)1.9′ × 0.9′[3]
Other designations
ESO 194-G012, PGC 1388

NGC 92 is a highly warped interacting unbarred spiral galaxy in Robert's Quartet; it is interacting with three neighbouring galaxies NGC 87, NGC 88 and NGC 89.

References

  1. 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. Bibcode2006AJ....131.1163S. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....131.1163S/abstract. 
  2. Lavaux, Guilhem; Hudson, Michael J. (October 2011), "The 2M++ galaxy redshift catalogue", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 416 (4): 2840–2856, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19233.x, Bibcode2011MNRAS.416.2840L. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database", Results for NGC 0092 (nasa), http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=NGC+92&list_limit=5, retrieved 2010-05-10. 

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Coordinates: Sky map 00h 21m 32s, −48° 37′ 34″