Astronomy:NGC 790
From HandWiki
Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Cetus
| NGC 790 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 790 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 02h 01m 21.576s[1] |
| Declination | −05° 22′ 15.77″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.017842[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 5301 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 232.3 Mly (71.22 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.5[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SA00(r)?[4] |
| Other designations | |
| MCG-01-06-026, PGC 7677[2] | |
NGC 790 is a lenticular galaxy[4] in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 233 million light-years from the Milky Way[3] and has a diameter of approximately 90,000 light years. NGC 790 was discovered on September 10, 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.[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 "NGC 790". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+790.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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 0790 (NGC 790)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20790&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 790 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC790.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+790&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.
External links
 |  |
