NGC 880

NGC 880
SDSS image of NGC 880
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	02h 18m 27.253s [1]
Declination	−04° 12′ 19.44″ [1]
Redshift	0.041656 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	12228 km/s [2]
Distance	586.9 ± 41.1  Mly (179.93 ± 12.61  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (V)	15.11 [2]
Apparent magnitude  (B)	15.61 [2]
Characteristics
Type	S? [4]
Other designations
PGC 8805 [2]

NGC 880 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 590 million light-years from the Milky Way. ^[3] It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886. ^{[5] [6]}

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

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. "NGC 880". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-25.
3. "Results for object NGC 0880 (NGC 880)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
4. "Search specification: NGC 880". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 880 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
6. Rojas, Sebastián García. "Galaxy NGC 880 - Galaxy in Cetus Constellation". Telescopius. Retrieved 2019-12-25.

External links

• Media related to NGC 880 at Wikimedia Commons