NGC 701

NGC 701 is a spiral galaxy with a high star formation rate in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 86 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 65,000 light years. The object was discovered on January 10, 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.[6][7][8]

NGC 701
NGC 701 imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Observation data
Right ascension	01^h 51^m 03.848^s[1]
Declination	−09° 42′ 09.32″[1]
Redshift	0.00611±0.00002[2]
Helio radial velocity	1831.13±5.10[2]
Distance (comoving)	85.6 Mly (26.25 Mpc)[3]
Group or cluster	NGC 681 Group[4]
Characteristics
Type	SBcd[3]
Other designations
AGC 410368[5]

References

1. Skrutskie, M. F.; et al. (February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708.
2. Koribalski, B. S.; et al. (July 2004). "The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: H I Properties". The Astronomical Journal. 128 (1): 16–46. arXiv:astro-ph/0404436. Bibcode:2004AJ....128...16K. doi:10.1086/421744.
3. Ann, H. B.; et al. (2015). "A Catalog of Visually Classified Galaxies in the Local (z ∼ 0.01) Universe". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 217 (2): 27–49. arXiv:1502.03545. Bibcode:2015ApJS..217...27A. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/217/2/27.
4. Tully, R. Brent; et al. (2013). "Cosmicflows-2: The Data". The Astronomical Journal. 146 (4): 86. arXiv:1307.7213. Bibcode:2013AJ....146...86T. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/146/4/86.
5. "NGC 701". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
6. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 701 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
7. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
8. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 701". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2019-12-17.

External links

• Media related to NGC 701 at Wikimedia Commons