Astronomy:NGC 769
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Triangulum
| NGC 769 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 769 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Triangulum |
| Right ascension | 01h 59m 35.915s[1] |
| Declination | +30° 54′ 35.65″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.0148 |
| Helio radial velocity | 4404 km/s |
| Distance | 177 Mly (54.2 Mpc)[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.4[3] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | Sc[4] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1467, MCG+05-05-037, PGC 7537[3] | |
NGC 769 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Triangulum about 197 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Truman Safford in 1866.[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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "NGC 769". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+769.
- ↑ "Search specification: NGC 769". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20769.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 769 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC769.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+769&img_stamp=YES.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 769". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC769.
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