Astronomy:NGC 911
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
| NGC 911 | |
|---|---|
 Pan-STARRS image of NGC 911 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
| Right ascension | 02h 25m 42.397s[1] |
| Declination | +41° 57′ 22.59″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.01885[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 5598 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 257.9 Mly (79.07 Mpc)[3] |
| Group or cluster | Abell 347[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 14.0[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E[2] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1878, MCG+07-06-016, PGC 9221[2] | |
NGC 911 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda about 258 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1878.[4][5][6] It is a member of the galaxy cluster Abell 347.[2]
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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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "NGC 911". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+911.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 911 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=939.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+911&img_stamp=YES.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 911". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC911.
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