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.
| NGC 532 | |
|---|---|
 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] | |
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edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c "NGC 532". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Search specification: NGC 532". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ^ "Results for object NGC 0532 (NGC 532)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 532". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-04-03.