NGC 531
Sign in to savebarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.015666796261657234
- Morphology
- SB:0a
- Coordinates
- RA 21.5783° · Dec 34.7541°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 26 18.805
- Declination
- +34 ° 45 ′ 14.93 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4660 km/s
- Distance
- 205.5 Mly (63.00 Mpc )
- Type
- SB0/a:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 63.00
- Image
- NGC 0531 SDSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- redshift
- 0.015544
- galaxy morphological type
- SB:0a
- catalog code
- SDSS J012618.80+344514.9
- Commons category
- NGC 531
- time of discovery or invention
- 1855-10-16
- apparent magnitude
- 12.603
- right ascension
- 21.5783560
- declination
- 34.7541460
- radial velocity
- 5428
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 531 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda with a visual magnitude of 10.51. It is a distance of 65.7 Mpc from the Sun. It is a member of the Hickson Compact Group HCG 10, and is interacting with the other members of the group.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 531” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.