NGC 732
| Galaxy NGC 732 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 1 h 56 m 27.81 s |
| declination | + 36 ° 48 ′ 7 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 1 ′ |
| Position angle | 28 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019660 +/- 0.000037 |
| Radial velocity | 5894 +/- 11 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(269 ± 19) · 10 6 ly (82.6 ± 5.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan |
| Discovery date | December 5, 1883 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 732 • UGC 1406 • PGC 7270 • CGCG 522-076 • MCG + 06-05-057 • IRAS 01535 + 3633 • 2MASX J0156277 + 364807 • Mrk 1011 • ARAK 64 • USGC U081 NED11 • HOLM 290 | |
NGC 732 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Andromeda in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 269 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 110,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 712 , NGC 717 , NGC 759 , IC 178 .
The object was discovered on December 5, 1883 by the French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan .
Web links
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 732. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on November 23, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ NGC 732. SIMBAD database, accessed on November 23, 2015 (English).
- ↑ a b c NGC 732. NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), accessed on November 23, 2015 (English).
- ↑ a b c d e f Hartmut Frommert: NGC 732. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, accessed on November 23, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Courtney Seligman: New General Catalog Objects: NGC 700 - 749. Retrieved November 23, 2015 (English).