{"release":{"id":"DR1","released_on":"2026-08-21","doi":null,"url":"https://spacecatalog.org/releases#dr1"},"epoch":{"requested":"now","label":"J2026.667","julian_year":2026.667,"time":"2026-09-01T18:04:37.567Z","years_from_j2000":26.667,"frame":"date","applied":"Proper motion, then precession and nutation. The catalogued J2000 position is carried along the great circle the object's own published motion puts it on, at a constant velocity, and the result is referred to the true equator and equinox of this instant. Those are separate things: the motion moves the object, and the rotation turns the grid under it by about fifty arcseconds a year, with nutation adding up to another seventeen.","excluded":"Parallax, the radial-velocity perspective term, aberration and refraction; each is below the accuracy of the catalogued positions themselves. An object with no published proper motion comes back where the catalogue has it rather than at a fabricated zero, and says so with a null pm_ra_mas_yr. A body with no fixed position is not propagated at all — its place comes from an ephemeris, which is what /api/v1/visible answers with."},"slug":"pgc-72122","name":"PGC 72122","class":"barred_spiral_galaxy_sb","category":"galaxy","object_type":"Barred spiral galaxy SB","mag":15.048,"mag_band":"B","abs_mag":-20.151509280792403,"abs_mag_band":"B","distance_ly":357542548.4784348,"distance_method":"luminosity distance from a spectroscopic redshift (GLADE+), flat ΛCDM with H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc","ra_deg":355.349304,"dec_deg":-9.898075,"epoch_ra_deg":355.695713,"epoch_dec_deg":-9.749248,"epoch_moved_arcsec":null,"pm_ra_mas_yr":null,"pm_dec_mas_yr":null,"orbits":null,"semi_major_axis_km":null,"periapsis_km":null,"mass_kg":null,"mass_msun":null,"constellation":"Aquarius","discovered":null,"featured":false,"url":"https://spacecatalog.org/object/pgc-72122","radius_km":null,"radius_kind":null,"data_quality":null,"description":null,"properties":{"b_mag":15.048,"h_mag":12.699,"j_mag":13.449,"k_mag":12.388,"redshift":0.02345,"hubble_type":"SB","redshift_cmb":0.0251191232492744,"uncertainties":{"distance_ly":[17854421.077568047,17859715.969771747],"stellar_mass_solar":[1868225337.0150042,1868225337.0150042]},"major_axis_arcmin":0.75943,"minor_axis_arcmin":0.672247,"morphology_source":"SIMBAD (2019MNRAS.488..590B, quality C)","position_angle_deg":54,"stellar_mass_solar":3736450674.0300083},"designations":[{"catalog":"2MASX","designation":"2MASX 23412383-0953530"},{"catalog":"PGC","designation":"PGC 72122"},{"catalog":"WISExSCOS","designation":"WISExSCOS J234123.77-095353.5"}],"source":{"id":"glade_plus","name":"GLADE+ (Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era)","url":"https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/VII/291","license":"VizieR terms; cite Dalya+ 2022 (2022MNRAS.514.1403D)"},"updated_at":"2026-08-30T09:56:50.739Z","attribution":"Data from SpaceCatalog.org. Individual records carry their source and license in `source`; attribution is required for CC-BY and CC-BY-SA rows."}