NGC 768

NGC 768 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 314 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis Swift in 1885.[5][6][7]

NGC 768
SDSS image of NGC 768
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationCetus
Right ascension01h 58m 40.953s[1]
Declination+00° 31′ 45.17″[1]
Redshift0.02334[2]
Helio radial velocity6916 km/s[2]
Distance260.3 Mly (79.80 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)14.3[2]
Characteristics
TypeSB(r)bc:[4]
Other designations
UGC 1457, MCG+00-06-016, PGC 7456[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 768". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  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 0768 (NGC 768)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 768 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  6. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  7. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 768". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  • Media related to NGC 768 at Wikimedia Commons


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