Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 02 27 54.7033
- Declination
- +20 ° 19 ′ 57.169 ″
- Redshift
- 0.013 606 ± 0.000 007 00
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,079 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 184.6 ± 12.9 Mly (56.59 ± 3.97 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 976 group (LGG 61)
- Type
- SAa
- Size
- ~112,900 ly (34.60 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.9′ × 1.6′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 932 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Aries. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 3,837±17 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 184.6 ± 12.9 Mly (56.59 ± 3.97 Mpc). It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 29 November 1785. There has been a longstanding confusion between this galaxy and NGC 930, which is a nonexistent object.
NGC 976 group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 932” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.