NGC 1532
Sign in to savebarred spiral galaxy of the Fornax Cluster
Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 04 12 04.335
- Declination
- −32 ° 52 ′ 26.745 ″
- Redshift
- 0.003 468 ± 0.000 017
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,040 ± 5 km/s
- Distance
- 58.34 ± 1.47 Mly (17.887 ± 0.451 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(s)b pec
- Size
- ~373,400 ly (114.47 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 12.6′ × 3.3′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Fornax Cluster
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Distance from Earth
- 14.2
- Image
- ESO - Ngc1532 gendler (by).jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 1532
- catalog code
- LEDA 14638
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-10-29
- apparent magnitude
- 6.729
- right ascension
- 63.018058
- declination
- -32.8742111
- radial velocity
- 1208
- redshift
- 0.003989
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1532, also known as Haley's Coronet, is an edge-on barred spiral galaxy located approximately 58 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by James Dunlop on 29 October 1826.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1532” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.