Astronomy:NGC 736
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Triangulum
| NGC 736 | |
|---|---|
 legacy surveys image of NGC 736 (center), as well as the galaxies NGC 733, NGC 738 and NGC 740 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Triangulum |
| Right ascension | 01h 56m 40.871s[1] |
| Declination | +33° 02′ 36.67″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.014567[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 4335 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 191.8 Mly (58.80 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.13[4] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.6[2] |
| Absolute magnitude (V) | -21.6[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E[2] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1414, MCG+05-05-028, PGC 7289[2] | |
NGC 736 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It is an estimated 200 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 85,000 light years. NGC 736 was discovered on September 12, 1784 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.[5][6][7]
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 736". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+736.
- ↑ 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 "Results for object NGC 0736 (NGC 736)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20736&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 736 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC736.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 736". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20736.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+736&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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