NGC 532
| Galaxy NGC 532 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 25 m 17.3 s |
| declination | + 09 ° 15 ′ 51 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab: |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 3.10 × 1.0 |
| Position angle | 28 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007875 +/- 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 2361 +/- 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(109 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (33.5 ± 2.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | September 21, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 532 • UGC 982 • PGC 5264 • CGCG 411-055 • MCG + 01-04-056 • IRAS 01226 + 0900 • 2MASX J01251734 + 0915507 • GC 313/314 • H III 556 • h 119 • LDCE 85 NED013 | |
NGC 532 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 109 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 100,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 516 , NGC 518 , NGC 524 , NGC 525 .
The object was discovered on September 21, 1786 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
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