NGC 532

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NGC 532
NGC532 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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]
Heliocentric 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. 1 2 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi: 10.1086/498708 . ISSN   0004-6256. S2CID   18913331.
  2. 1 2 3 "NGC 532". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  3. ↑ Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 21. arXiv: 1605.01765 . Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T. doi: 10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50 . S2CID   250737862. 50.
  4. 1 2 "Search specification: NGC 532". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  5. ↑ "Results for object NGC 0532 (NGC 532)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  6. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 532". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
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