Astronomy:NGC 636
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Short description: Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus
| NGC 636 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 636 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 01h 39m 06.529s[1] |
| Declination | −07° 30′ 45.37″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.006181[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 1847 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 95.8 Mly (29.38 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 12.5[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E3[4] |
| Other designations | |
| MCG-01-05-013, PGC 6110[2] | |
NGC 636 is an elliptical galaxy in the Cetus constellation. It is located about 96 million light-years from the Milky Way.[3] It was discovered by the German–British astronomer William Herschel in 1785.[4][5][6]
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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 636". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+636.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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. Bibcode: 2016AJ....152...50T.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Results for object NGC 0636 (NGC 636)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20636&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 636 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC636.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 636". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC636.
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