Astronomy:NGC 585

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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
NGC 585
NGC 0585 SDSS.jpg
NGC 585 imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Observation data (J2000.0 epoch)
ConstellationCetus
Right ascension  01h 31m 42.103s[1]
Declination−00° 55′ 58.46″[1]
Redshift0.01812±0.00006[2]
Helio radial velocity5,431.040930±18.886927[2]
Distance246.8 ± 17.3 kly (75.66 ± 5.31 kpc)h−10.73[2]
Characteristics
TypeSa[3] (edge on)
Other designations
UGC 1092, PGC 5688

NGC 585 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, which is about 245 million light-years from the Milky Way's center. The object was discovered on December 20, 1827, by the British astronomer John Frederick William Herschel.[4][5]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode2006AJ....131.1163S. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....131.1163S/abstract. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Theureau, G.; Bottinelli, L.; Coudreau-Durand, N.; Gouguenheim, L.; Hallet, N.; Loulergue, M.; Paturel, G.; Teerikorpi, P. (June 1998). "Kinematics of the local universe. VII. New 21-cm line measurements of 2112 galaxies". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement 130 (2): 333–339. doi:10.1051/aas:1998416. Bibcode1998A&AS..130..333T. 
  3. de Vaucouleurs, Gérard (April 1963). "Revised Classification of 1500 Bright Galaxies". Astrophysical Journal Supplement 8: 31. doi:10.1086/190084. Bibcode1963ApJS....8...31D. 
  4. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 585 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC585. 
  5. "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+585&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES. 

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