NGC 624

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NGC 624
NGC624 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 624
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Cetus
Right ascension 01h 35m 51.084s [1]
Declination −10° 00′ 10.72″ [1]
Redshift 0.019789 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity 5873.9 km/s [2]
Distance 273.8  Mly (83.95  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (B)14.2 [2]
Characteristics
Type (R')SB(r)b pec [4]
Other designations
MCG -02-05-010, PGC 5932 [2]

NGC 624 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, which is about 264 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered on November 28, 1785, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel. [5] [6] [7]

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  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 4 "NGC 624". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  3. ↑ 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 . S2CID   250737862. 50.
  4. ↑ "Results for object NGC 0624 (NGC 624)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  5. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 624 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  6. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 624". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  7. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-04.


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