NGC 532

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]

See also

• List of NGC objects

External links

• SEDS^[6]

References

1. 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. "NGC 532". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
3. 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.
4. "Search specification: NGC 532". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
5. "Results for object NGC 0532 (NGC 532)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
6. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 532". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-04-03.