NGC 623

Large elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sculptor

NGC 623
legacy surveys image of NGC 623 (left) and NGC 619 (right)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Sculptor
Right ascension	01^h 35^m 06.388^s^[1]
Declination	−36° 29′ 24.80″^[1]
Redshift	0.029871^[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	8821 km/s^[2]
Distance	396.1 Mly (121.43 Mpc)^[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.32^[4]
Characteristics
Type	E^[4]/S0^[2]
Size	246.49 kiloparsecs (804,000 light-years) (diameter; 27.0 B-mag arcsec⁻²)^[5]
Other designations
ESO 353- G 023, MCG -06-04-052, PGC 5898^[2]

NGC 623 is a large elliptical galaxy located in the Sculptor constellation at a distance of about 400 million light-years^[3] away from the Milky Way. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 30 November 1837.^[6]^[7]^[5]^[8]

References

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^ ^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 623". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020年05月19日.
^ ^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 "Search specification: NGC 623". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1accessdate=2020年05月19日.
^ ^a ^b "Results for object NGC 623". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020年04月04日.
^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 623 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020年04月04日.
^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 623". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020年04月04日.
^ Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue Objects: NGC 623". Celestial Atlas. Retrieved 18 November 2024.

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