NGC 536
| Galaxy NGC 536 |
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![Image of the HCG 10 with an 80 cm telescope; NGC 536 is in the center left (NGC 531 (o), NGC 542 (u) & NGC 529 (r)) [1]](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:N536s.jpg)
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| Image of the HCG 10 with an 80 cm telescope; NGC 536 is in the center left (NGC 531 (o), NGC 542 (u) & NGC 529 (r)) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 26 m 21.8 s |
| declination | + 34 ° 42 ′ 11 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (r) b / AGN |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.3 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 68 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 507 group WBL 046-003 LGG 26 |
| Redshift | 0.017309 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 5189 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(238 ± 17) · 10 6 ly (73.1 ± 5.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | September 13, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 536 • UGC 1013 • PGC 5344 • CGCG 521-025 • MCG + 06-04-021 • 2MASX J01262177 + 3442107 • HCG 10A • GC 317/325 • H III 171 • h 120 • LDCE 74 NED085 | |
NGC 536 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Andromeda in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 238 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 225,000 ly.
Together with the galaxies NGC 529 , NGC 531 and NGC 542 , it forms the Hickson Compact Group 10 ( HCG 10 ).
The Type II supernova SN 1963N was observed here.
The object was discovered on September 13, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
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