NGC 531

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.^[5][6] It is a member of the Hickson Compact Group HCG 10,^[2] and is interacting with the other members of the group.^[5]

NGC 531
SDSS image of NGC 531
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Andromeda
Right ascension	01h 26m 18.805s[1]
Declination	+34° 45′ 14.93″[1]
Redshift	0.015667[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	4660 km/s[2]
Distance	205.5 Mly (63.00 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	14.86[4]
Characteristics
Type	SB0/a:[5]
Other designations
UGC 1012, MCG +06-04-020, PGC 5340[2]