NGC 584

NGC 584
SDSS image of NGC 584
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	01h 31m 20.755s [1]
Declination	−06° 52′ 05.02″ [1]
Redshift	0.006011 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	1802 [2]
Distance	62.28 ± 10.84  Mly (19.094 ± 3.323  Mpc) [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)	10.48
Apparent magnitude  (B)	11.44
Characteristics
Type	E4 [2]
Apparent size  (V)	2.983' × 1.850' [1]
Other designations
IC 1712, MCG-01-04-060, PGC 5663 [3]

NGC 584 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered on 10 September 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.

It is about 20 megaparsecs (60 million light-years) distant. ^[4] NGC 584 belongs to the NGC 584 galaxy group, which also includes the galaxies NGC 596, NGC 600, NGC 615 and NGC 636. ^[5]

See also

• List of galaxies
• Comet Galaxy

References

1. Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi: 10.1086/498708 . ISSN   0004-6256. S2CID   18913331.
2. "NED results for object NGC 0584". National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Infrared Processing and Analysis Center . Retrieved 4 February 2017.
3. "NGC 584". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 4 February 2017.
4. OBEY - NGC 584
5. Makarov, Dmitry; Karachentsev, Igor (21 April 2011). "Galaxy groups and clouds in the local (z∼ 0.01) Universe". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 412 (4): 2498–2520. arXiv: 1011.6277 . Bibcode:2011MNRAS.412.2498M. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18071.x . S2CID   119194025.

External links

• Media related to NGC 584 at Wikimedia Commons
• Deep Sky Catalog ^{[ usurped ]}