NGC 670

NGC 670 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Triangulum constellation about 165 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1786.^[4][5][6]

NGC 670
SDSS image of NGC 670
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Triangulum
Right ascension	01h 47m 24.846s[1]
Declination	+27° 53′ 08.54″[1]
Redshift	0.012429[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	3703 km/s[2]
Distance	162.8 Mly (49.92 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)	12.72[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.53[2]
Characteristics
Type	S0[2]
Other designations
UGC 1250, MCG +05-05-012, PGC 6570[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 670". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
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. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
5. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 670". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
6. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-18.

External links

• Media related to NGC 670 at Wikimedia Commons