Astronomy:NGC 64
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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
NGC 64 | |
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![]() SDSS image of NGC 64 | |
Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
Constellation | Cetus |
Right ascension | 00h 17m 30.368s[1] |
Declination | −06° 49′ 28.69″[1] |
Redshift | 0.024384[2] |
Helio radial velocity | 7312 ± 9 km/s[2] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 13.2[3] |
Characteristics | |
Type | SB(s)bc[2] |
Apparent size (V) | 1.5' × 1.1'[2] |
Other designations | |
NGC 64, MCG 01-01-068, PGC 1149. |
NGC 64 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Lewis Swift in 1886, and is located in the Cetus constellation.[3]
![](/wiki/images/thumb/2/23/NGC_0064_2MASS.jpg/250px-NGC_0064_2MASS.jpg)
NGC 64 (near-infrared)
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. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....131.1163S/abstract.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, Accessed 21 Feb 2014
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The NGC/IC Project , Accessed 21 Feb 2014
External links
![]() | Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC 64.
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