Astronomy:NGC 768
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Cetus
| NGC 768 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 768 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 01h 58m 40.953s[1] |
| Declination | +00° 31′ 45.17″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.02334[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 6916 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 260.3 Mly (79.80 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 14.3[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SB(r)bc:[4] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1457, MCG+00-06-016, PGC 7465[2] | |
NGC 768 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 314 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis Swift in 1885.[5][6][7]
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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 768". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+768.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Results for object NGC 0768 (NGC 768)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20768&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 768 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC768.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+768&img_stamp=YES.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 768". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC768.
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