Astronomy:NGC 7759

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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Aquarius
NGC 7759
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Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationAquarius
Right ascension 23h 48m 54.712s[1]
Declination−16° 32′ 28.26″[1]
Redshift0.024743[2]
Helio radial velocity7326 km/s[2]
Distance336.3 ± 23.6 Mly (103.10 ± 7.24 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)13.95[4]
Characteristics
TypeSAB00 pec:[3]
Other designations
MCG-03-60-018, PGC 72496[2]

NGC 7759 is a lenticular galaxy[3] in the constellation Aquarius. It is located about 340 million light-years (100 Megaparsecs) away from the Sun.[3] It was discovered independently by American astronomers Lewis A. Swift and Francis Preserved Leavenworth.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 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. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....131.1163S/abstract. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NGC 7759". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+7759. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Results for object NGC 7759 (NGC 7759)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%207759&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1. Retrieved 2021-02-03. 
  4. ↑ "Search specification: NGC 7759". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%207759. Retrieved 2021-02-03. 
  5. ↑ Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 7750 - 7799". http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc77a.htm#7759. Retrieved 2021-02-03. 



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