NGC 850

NGC 850 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 300 million light-years from the Milky Way[3] and has a diameter of approximately 130,000 ly.[4][5][6]

NGC 850
SDSS image of NGC 850
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationCetus
Right ascension 02h 11m 13.661s[1]
Declination−01° 29 08.10[1]
Redshift0.027226[2]
Helio radial velocity8051 km/s[2]
Distance305.8 Mly (93.76 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)14.1[2]
Characteristics
TypeSAB0+(s)[4]
Other designations
UGC 1679, MCG+00-06-049, PGC 8369[2]

See also

References

  1. Skrutskie, M. (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 850". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  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 0850 (NGC 850)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  5. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 850". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  6. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 850 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  • Media related to NGC 850 at Wikimedia Commons


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