Astronomy:NGC 169
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Short description: Barred spiral galaxy in Andromeda
| NGC 169 | |
|---|---|
 Hubble Space Telescope/Víctor M. Blanco Telescope image of NGC 169 (top) and IC 1559 (bottom) | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
| Right ascension | 00h 36m 51.6s[1] |
| Declination | +23° 59′ 27″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.015434[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 13.3[1] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SA(s)ab[1] |
| Apparent size (V) | 2.6' × 0.7'[1] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 365, PGC 2202, Arp 282[1] | |
NGC 169 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on September 18, 1857 by R. J. Mitchell.[2]
NGC 169 has a smaller companion named NGC 169A, also designated IC1559. The two are currently interacting, and the pair is included in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 0169. http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=NGC+169&img_stamp=yes&extend=no.
- ↑ "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 150 - 199". Cseligman. http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc1a.htm#169.
- ↑ Arp, Halton (1966). Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Pasadena, California: California Institute of Technology. http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/Arp_contents.html. Retrieved 5 Jan 2010. (webpage includes PDF link)
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