NGC 92

NGC 92 is a highly warped interacting unbarred spiral galaxy in Robert's Quartet; it is interacting with three neighbouring galaxies NGC 87, NGC 88 and NGC 89.

NGC 92
NGC 92
H-alpha image of NGC 92 with VLT
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationPhoenix
Right ascension00h 21m 31.713s[1]
Declination−48° 37′ 29.23″[1]
Redshift0.011278 ± 0.000037[2]
Distance141 Mly (43.2 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)13.81[3]
Characteristics
TypeSAa: pec[3]
Apparent size (V)1.9′ × 0.9′[3]
Other designations
ESO 194-G012, PGC 1388

References
  1. Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
  2. Lavaux, Guilhem; Hudson, Michael J. (October 2011), "The 2M++ galaxy redshift catalogue", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 416 (4): 2840–2856, arXiv:1105.6107, Bibcode:2011MNRAS.416.2840L, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19233.x, S2CID 119267445.
  3. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database", Results for NGC 0092, nasa, retrieved 2010-05-10.
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