NGC 532

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.

NGC 532
SDSS image of NGC 532
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]