NGC 768

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NGC 768
NGC768 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 768
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Cetus
Right ascension 01h 58m 40.953s [1]
Declination +00° 31′ 45.17″ [1]
Redshift 0.02334 [2]
Helio radial velocity 6916 km/s [2]
Distance 260.3  Mly (79.80  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (B)14.3 [2]
Characteristics
Type SB(r)bc: [4]
Other designations
UGC 1457, MCG +00-06-016, PGC 7465 [2]

NGC 768 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 314 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis Swift in 1885. [5] [6] [7]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "NGC 768". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  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 0768 (NGC 768)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  5. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 768 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  6. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  7. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 768". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-30.


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