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NGC 790

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NGC 790

SDSS image of NGC 790

Observation data (J2000 epoch)

Right ascension

02^h01^m 21.576^s^[1]

−05° 22′ 15.77″^[1]

0.017842^[2]

Heliocentric radial velocity

5301 km/s^[2]

232.3 Mly (71.22 Mpc)^[3]

Apparent magnitude (B)

13.5^[2]

Characteristics

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]

See also[edit]

List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b 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.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "NGC 790". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.

^ ^a ^b 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.

^ ^a ^b "Results for object NGC 0790 (NGC 790)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.

^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 790 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-22.

^ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-22.

External links[edit]

Media related to NGC 790 at Wikimedia Commons

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List of NGC objects

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