NGC 606

NGC 606 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Pisces constellation about 470 million light-years^[3] from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1881.^[4][5]

NGC 606
SDSS image of NGC 606
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Pisces
Right ascension	01h 34m 50.14672s[1]
Declination	+21° 25′ 06.3712″[1]
Redshift	0.033253[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	9803 km/s[2]
Distance	465.5 ± 32.6 Mly (142.72 ± 10.00 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	14.5[2]
Characteristics
Type	SB(r)c[3]
Other designations
UGC 1126, MCG +03-05-010, PGC 5874[3]

One supernova has been observed in NGC 606: SN 2016fmt (type II, mag. 17.8).^[6][7]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References

1. Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051.
2. "NGC 606". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
3. "Results for object NGC 0570 (NGC 570)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
4. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 606 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
5. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 606". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
6. "SN 2016fmt". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
7. "AT 2016fmt". Transient Name Server. IAU. Retrieved 26 August 2024.

External links

• Media related to NGC 606 at Wikimedia Commons