NGC 769
Appearance
NGC 769 | |
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Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
Constellation | Triangulum |
Right ascension | 01h 59m 35.915s[1] |
Declination | +30° 54′ 35.65″[1] |
Redshift | 0.0148 |
Heliocentric radial velocity | 4404 km/s |
Distance | 177 Mly (54.2 Mpc)[2] |
Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.4[3] |
Characteristics | |
Type | Sc[4] |
Other designations | |
UGC 1467, MCG +05-05-037, PGC 7537[3] |
NGC 769 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Triangulum about 197 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Truman Safford in 1866.[5][6][7]
See also
References
- ^ a b Skrutskie, M. (2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708.
- ^ Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 21. arXiv:1605.01765. Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. 50.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ a b "NGC 769". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
- ^ "Search specification: NGC 769". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
- ^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 769 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
- ^ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
- ^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 769". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
External links
- Media related to NGC 769 at Wikimedia Commons