NGC 736

NGC 736 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It is an estimated 200 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 85,000 light years. NGC 736 was discovered on September 12, 1784 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.^[5][6][7]

NGC 736
legacy surveys image of NGC 736 (center), as well as the galaxies NGC 733, NGC 738 and NGC 740
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Triangulum
Right ascension	01h 56m 40.871s[1]
Declination	+33° 02′ 36.67″[1]
Redshift	0.014567[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	4335 km/s[2]
Distance	191.8 Mly (58.80 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)	12.13[4]
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.6[2]
Absolute magnitude (V)	-21.6[4]
Characteristics
Type	E[2]
Other designations
UGC 1414, MCG +05-05-028, PGC 7289[2]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References

1. 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.
2. "NGC 736". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
3. 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.
4. "Results for object NGC 0736 (NGC 736)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 736 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
6. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 736". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
7. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-29.

External links

• Media related to NGC 736 at Wikimedia Commons