Astronomy:NGC 992
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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries
| NGC 992 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 992 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Aries |
| Right ascension | 02h 37m 25.491s[1] |
| Declination | +21° 06′ 03.04″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.01376[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 4098 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 188.1 ± 13.2 Mly (57.67 ± 4.04 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 15.13[4] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 15.53[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SBc[4] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 2103, MCG+03-07-035, PGC 9938[2] | |
NGC 992 is a spiral galaxy in the Aries constellation and is estimated to be 188 million light years from the Milky Way. NGC 992 was discovered by astronomers Lewis A. Swift on September 6, 1886.[5][6]
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References
- ↑ 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 992". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+992.
- ↑ "Results for object NGC 0992 (NGC 992)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20992&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Search specification: NGC 992". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20992.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 992 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC992.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 992". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20992.
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