NGC 992

NGC 992 is a spiral galaxy in the Aries constellation and is estimated to be 188 million light years from the Milky Way. NGC 992 was discovered by astronomers Lewis A. Swift on September 6, 1886.^[5][6]

NGC 992
SDSS image of NGC 992
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Aries
Right ascension	02h 37m 25.491s[1]
Declination	+21° 06′ 03.04″[1]
Redshift	0.01376[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	4098 km/s[2]
Distance	188.1 ± 13.2 Mly (57.67 ± 4.04 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)	15.13[4]
Apparent magnitude (B)	15.53[4]
Characteristics
Type	SBc[4]
Other designations
UGC 2103, MCG +03-07-035, PGC 9938[2]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

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 992". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
3. "Results for object NGC 0992 (NGC 992)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
4. "Search specification: NGC 992". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 992 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
6. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 992". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.

External links

• Media related to NGC 992 at Wikimedia Commons