Astronomy:NGC 623
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Short description: Large elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sculptor
| NGC 623 | |
|---|---|
 legacy surveys image of NGC 623 (left) and NGC 619 (right) | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Sculptor |
| Right ascension | 01h 35m 06.388s[1] |
| Declination | −36° 29′ 24.80″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.029871[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 8821 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 396.1 Mly (121.43 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.32[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E[4]/S0[2] |
| Size | 246.49 kiloparsecs (804,000 light-years) (diameter; 27.0 B-mag arcsec−2)[5] |
| Other designations | |
| MCG-06-04-052, PGC 5898[2] | |
NGC 623 is a large elliptical galaxy located in the Sculptor constellation at a distance of about 400 million light-years[3] away from the Milky Way. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel in 1837.[6][7][5]
See also
References
- ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "NGC 623". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+623.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal 655 (2): 790–813. doi:10.1086/510201. Bibcode: 2007ApJ...655..790C.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Search specification: NGC 623". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1accessdate=2020-05-19. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20623.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+623&img_stamp=YES.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 623 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC623.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 623". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC623.
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