Astronomy:NGC 880
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Cetus
| NGC 880 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 880 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 02h 18m 27.253s[1] |
| Declination | −04° 12′ 19.44″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.041656[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 12228 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 586.9 ± 41.1 Mly (179.93 ± 12.61 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 15.11[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 15.61[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | S?[4] |
| Other designations | |
| PGC 8805[2] | |
NGC 880 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 590 million light-years from the Milky Way.[3] It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886.[5][6]
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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 880". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+880.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Results for object NGC 0880 (NGC 880)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20880&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ "Search specification: NGC 880". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20880.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 880 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC880.
- ↑ Rojas, Sebastián García. "Galaxy NGC 880 - Galaxy in Cetus Constellation" (in en). https://telescopius.com/deep-sky/object/1775/ngc-880/galaxy.
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