NGC 905

NGC 905 is a lenticular galaxy with an active nucleus in the constellation Cetus south. It is estimated to be 644 million light-years^[2] from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 85,000 ly. NGC 905 was discovered by astronomer Francis Leavenworth.^[4][5]

NGC 905
SDSS image of NGC 905
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	02h 22m 43.574s[1]
Declination	−08° 43′ 08.46″[1]
Redshift	0.04551[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	13333 km/s[1]
Distance	644.8 ± 45.2 Mly (197.70 ± 13.85 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	15.70[3]
Characteristics
Type	S0-a[3]
Other designations
PGC 9038[1]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References

1. "NGC 905". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
2. "Results for object NGC 0905 (NGC 905)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
3. "Search specification: NGC 905". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
4. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 905 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
5. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 905". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.

External links

• Media related to NGC 905 at Wikimedia Commons