View source for Astronomy:NGC 768

{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Cetus}}
{{Infobox galaxy
| name = NGC 768
| image = [[File:NGC768 - SDSS DR14.jpg|250px]]
| caption = [[Astronomy:Sloan Digital Sky Survey|SDSS]] image of NGC 768
| epoch = [[Astronomy:J2000|J2000]]
| constellation name = [[Astronomy:Cetus|Cetus]]
| ra = {{RA|01|58|40.953}}<ref name=2MASS>{{cite journal |doi=10.1086/498708 |last1=Skrutskie |first1=Michael F. |last2=Cutri |first2=Roc M. |last3=Stiening |first3=Rae |last4=Weinberg |first4=Martin D. |last5=Schneider |first5=Stephen E. |last6=Carpenter |first6=John M. |last7=Beichman |first7=Charles A. |last8=Capps |first8=Richard W. |last9=Chester |first9=Thomas |last10=Elias |first10=Jonathan H. |last11=Huchra |first11=John P. |last12=Liebert |first12=James W. |last13=Lonsdale |first13=Carol J. |last14=Monet |first14=David G. |last15=Price |first15=Stephan |last16=Seitzer |first16=Patrick |last17=Jarrett |first17=Thomas H. |last18=Kirkpatrick |first18=J. Davy |last19=Gizis |first19=John E. |last20=Howard |first20=Elizabeth V. |last21=Evans |first21=Tracey E. |last22=Fowler |first22=John W. |last23=Fullmer |first23=Linda |last24=Hurt |first24=Robert L. |last25=Light |first25=Robert M. |last26=Kopan |first26=Eugene L. |last27=Marsh |first27=Kenneth A. |last28=McCallon |first28=Howard L. |last29=Tam |first29=Robert |last30=Van Dyk |first30=Schuyler D. |last31=Wheelock |first31=Sherry L. |title=The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) |journal=The Astronomical Journal |date=1 February 2006 |volume=131 |issue=2 |pages=1163–1183 |bibcode=2006AJ....131.1163S |s2cid=18913331 |issn=0004-6256 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| dec = {{DEC|+00|31|45.17}}<ref name=2MASS/>
| z = 0.02334<ref name=SIMBAD/>
| h_radial_v = 6916 km/s<ref name=SIMBAD/>
| dist_ly = {{cvt|79.80|Mpc|Mly|lk=on|order=flip}}<ref name=Cosmicflows3>{{cite journal|bibcode=2016AJ....152...50T|doi=10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50|arxiv=1605.01765|title=Cosmicflows-3|author1=Tully, R. Brent|author2=Courtois, Hélène M.|author3=Sorce, Jenny G.|journal=The Astronomical Journal|volume=152|issue=2|id=50|pages=21|date=2016|s2cid=250737862 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| group_cluster =
| type = SB(r)bc:<ref name=NED>{{cite web|url=https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20768&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1|title=Results for object NGC 0768 (NGC 768)|work=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database|publisher=California Institute of Technology|access-date=2020-05-24}}</ref>
| size = 
| appmag_v = 
| appmag_b = 14.3<ref name=SIMBAD/>
| absmag_v = 
| size_v = 
| notes =
| names = {{odlist|UGC=1457 |MCG=+00-06-016|PGC=7465}}<ref name=SIMBAD>{{cite simbad|title=NGC 768|access-date=2020-05-24}}</ref>
}}
'''NGC 768''' is a [[Astronomy:Barred spiral galaxy|barred spiral galaxy]] located in the [[Astronomy:Cetus|constellation Cetus]] about 314 million [[Astronomy:Light-year|light years]] from the [[Astronomy:Milky Way|Milky Way]]. It was discovered by the American [[Astronomy:Astronomer|astronomer]] [[Biography:Lewis A. Swift|Lewis Swift]] in 1885.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC768|title=The galaxy NGC 768 - In-The-Sky.org|last=Ford|first=Dominic|website=in-the-sky.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+768&img_stamp=YES|title=Your NED Search Results|website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu|access-date=2020-03-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC768|title=Revised NGC Data for NGC 768|website=spider.seds.org|access-date=2020-03-30}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Astronomy:List of NGC objects (1–1000)|List of NGC objects (1–1000)]]

== References ==
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== External links ==


[[Category:Barred spiral galaxies]]
[[Category:NGC objects|0768]]
[[Category:Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects|007465]]



{{Sourceattribution|NGC 768}}