| NGC 532 | |
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SDSS image of NGC 532
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| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Pisces |
| Right ascension | 01h25m 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 (30Megaparsecs) away from the Earth, and was discovered on September 21, 1786, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.
