Astronomy:NGC 656
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Short description: Lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces
| NGC 656 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 656 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Pisces |
| Right ascension | 01h 42m 27.229s[1] |
| Declination | +26° 08′ 35.06″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.013129[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 3910 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 174.8 Mly (53.60 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.50[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SB0[2][3] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1194, MCG+04-05-002, PGC 6293[2] | |
NGC 656 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the Pisces constellation about 175 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the Prussian astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest in 1865.[4][5][6]
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 2.4 "NGC 656". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+656.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Results for object NGC 0656 (NGC 656)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20656&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+656&img_stamp=YES.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 656". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC656.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 656 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC656.
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