NGC 690

NGC 690
NGC 690 imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	01h 47m 48.074s [1]
Declination	−16° 43′ 19.88″ [1]
Redshift	0.01721±0.00003 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	5,160.03±9.89 [2]  km/s
Distance	235.6 ± 16.5  Mly (72.25 ± 5.07  Mpc) [2]
Characteristics
Type	SAB(s)c: [2]
Other designations
AGC 410352, LEDA 6587 [3]

NGC 690 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 236 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1885. ^{[4] [5]}

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. de Vaucouleurs, G.; et al. (1991). "Third reference catalogue of bright galaxies". 3.9. New York: Springer-Verlag.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
3. "NGC 690". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-01-10.
4. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 690 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
5. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-12.

External links

• Media related to NGC 690 at Wikimedia Commons