NGC 624

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]

NGC 624
SDSS image of NGC 624
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationCetus
Right ascension 01h 35m 51.084s[1]
Declination−10° 00 10.72[1]
Redshift0.019789[2]
Helio radial velocity5873.9 km/s[2]
Distance273.8 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]

See also

References

  1. Skrutskie, M.; et al. (2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708.
  2. "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. 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.
  • Media related to NGC 624 at Wikimedia Commons


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