Astronomy:NGC 852
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Short description: Barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus
| NGC 852 | |
|---|---|
 NGC 852 imaged by the legacy surveys | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
| Right ascension | 02h 08m 55.446s[1] |
| Declination | −56° 44′ 13.29″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.021656[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 6421.9[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SB(rs)bc:[3] |
| Apparent size (V) | 0.593′ × 0.546′[1] |
| Other designations | |
| IRAS F02072-5658, LEDA 8195[4] | |
NGC 852 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Eridanus constellation. It is estimated to be 281 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 110,000 light-years. NGC 852 was discovered on October 27, 1834, by John Herschel.[5][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 Meyer, M. J. et al. (June 2004). "The HIPASS catalogue - I. Data presentation". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 350 (4): 1195–1209. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07710.x. Bibcode: 2004MNRAS.350.1195M.
- ↑ de Vaucouleurs, G. et al. (1991). Third reference catalogue of bright galaxies. 3.9. New York: Springer-Verlag.
- ↑ "NGC 852". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+852.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+852&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.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 852". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20852.
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