NGC 92

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NGC 92
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H-alpha image of NGC 92 with VLT
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Phoenix
Right ascension 00h 21m 31.713s [1]
Declination −48° 37 29.23 [1]
Redshift 0.011278 ± 0.000037 [2]
Distance 141  Mly (43.2  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (V)13.81 [3]
Characteristics
Type SAa: 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 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. Lavaux, Guilhem; Hudson, Michael J. (October 2011), "The 2M++ galaxy redshift catalogue", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 416 (4): 2840–2856, arXiv: 1105.6107 , Bibcode:2011MNRAS.416.2840L, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19233.x , S2CID   119267445.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database", Results for NGC 0092, nasa, retrieved 2010-05-10.