Astronomy:NGC 920
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Short description: Barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
| NGC 920 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 920 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
| Right ascension | 02h 27m 51.794s[1] |
| Declination | +45° 56′ 49.58″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.020886[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 6196 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 288.4 ± 20.2 Mly (88.43 ± 6.20 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 15.6[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | (R')SB(s)ab[3] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1920, MCG+08-05-011, PGC 9377[2] | |
NGC 920 is a barred spiral galaxy[2] in the Andromeda constellation. The celestial object was discovered on September 11, 1885 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift.[4][5]
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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 "NGC 920". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+920.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Results for object NGC 0920 (NGC 920)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20920&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 920 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC920.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 920". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC920.
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