Astronomy:NGC 624

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NGC 624
NGC624 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 624
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationCetus
Right ascension 01h 35m 51.084s[1]
Declination−10° 00′ 10.72″[1]
Redshift0.019789[2]
Helio radial velocity5873.9 km/s[2]
Distance273.8 Mly (83.95 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)14.2[2]
Characteristics
Type(R')SB(r)b pec[4]
Other designations
MCG-02-05-010, PGC 5932[2]

NGC 624 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, which is about 264 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered on November 28, 1785, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.[5][6][7]

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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. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "NGC 624". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+624. 
  3. Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal 152 (2): 21. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. 50. Bibcode2016AJ....152...50T. 
  4. "Results for object NGC 0624 (NGC 624)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20624&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1. 
  5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 624 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=681. 
  6. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 624". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20624. 
  7. "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+624&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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