Astronomy:NGC 874
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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
| NGC 874 | |
|---|---|
 DECam image of NGC 874 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 02h 16m 02.06183s[1] |
| Declination | −23° 18′ 21.7259″[1] |
| Helio radial velocity | 12060[2] km/s |
| Distance | 571.5 ± 40.1 Mly (175.22 ± 12.28 Mpc)[3] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | Sab? pec[4] |
| Other designations | |
| ESO 478-18, GSC 06433-01732, PGC 8663[5] | |
NGC 874 is a spiral galaxy located in the Cetus constellation. It is estimated to be 572 million light-years away from the Milky Way galaxy and has a diameter of approximately 80,000 light-years. NGC 874 was discovered in 1886 by Frank Muller.[3][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ↑ Jones, D. Heath et al. (October 2009), "The 6dF Galaxy Survey: final redshift release (DR3) and southern large-scale structures", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 399 (2): 683–698, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15338.x, Bibcode: 2009MNRAS.399..683J
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+874&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.
- ↑ de Vaucouleurs, G. et al. (1991). Third reference catalogue of bright galaxies. 3.9. New York: Springer-Verlag.
- ↑ "NGC 874". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+874.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 874". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20874.
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