NGC 532 | |
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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] |
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.