Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.007873083648157753
- Morphology
- Sab
- Coordinates
- RA 21.3223° · Dec 9.2642°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 25 17.348
- Declination
- +09 ° 15 ′ 50.71 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2276 km/s
- Distance
- 105.1 Mly (32.21 Mpc )
- Type
- Sab?
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 31.72
- Image
- NGC 0532 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 5264
- redshift
- 0.007952
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-09-21
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa:
- apparent magnitude
- 8.834
- Commons category
- NGC 532
- right ascension
- 21.3222833
- declination
- 9.2640861
- radial velocity
- 2537
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 532” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.