Astronomy:NGC 623

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Short description: Large elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sculptor
NGC 623
legacy surveys image of NGC 623 (left) and NGC 619 (right)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationSculptor
Right ascension 01h 35m 06.388s[1]
Declination−36° 29′ 24.80″[1]
Redshift0.029871[2]
Helio radial velocity8821 km/s[2]
Distance396.1 Mly (121.43 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)13.32[4]
Characteristics
TypeE[4]/S0[2]
Size246.49 kiloparsecs (804,000 light-years)
(diameter; 27.0 B-mag arcsec−2)[5]
Other designations
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 in 1837.[6][7][5]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode2006AJ....131.1163S. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "NGC 623". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+623. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 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. doi:10.1086/510201. Bibcode2007ApJ...655..790C. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Search specification: NGC 623". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1accessdate=2020-05-19. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20623. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+623&img_stamp=YES. 
  6. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 623 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC623. 
  7. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 623". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC623.