Astronomy:NGC 960
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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
| NGC 960 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 960 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 02h 31m 41.302s[1] |
| Declination | −09° 18′ 01.01″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.016233[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 4827 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 185.1 Mly (56.75 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 14.78[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SABb[4] |
| Other designations | |
| MCG-02-07-028, PGC 9621[2] | |
NGC 960 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered in 1886 by Francis Preserved Leavenworth.[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 "NGC 960". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+960.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Search specification: NGC 960". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20960.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=NGC+960.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 960". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC960.
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