NGC 790

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NGC 790
NGC790 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 790
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Cetus
Right ascension 02h 01m 21.576s [1]
Declination −05° 22′ 15.77″ [1]
Redshift 0.017842 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity 5301 km/s [2]
Distance 232.3  Mly (71.22  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (B)13.5 [2]
Characteristics
Type SA00(r)? [4]
Other designations
MCG -01-06-026, PGC 7677 [2]

NGC 790 is a lenticular galaxy [4] in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 233 million light-years from the Milky Way [3] and has a diameter of approximately 90,000 light years. NGC 790 was discovered on September 10, 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel. [5] [6]

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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 790". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  3. 1 2 Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 655 (2): 790–813. arXiv: astro-ph/0610732 . Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C. doi:10.1086/510201. S2CID   11672751.
  4. 1 2 "Results for object NGC 0790 (NGC 790)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  5. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 790 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  6. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-22.


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