NGC 698
| Galaxy NGC 698 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Chemical furnace |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 49 m 43.7 s |
| declination | -34 ° 49 ′ 52 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R) SA (r) b / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 164 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.027500 ± 0.000210 |
| Radial velocity | 8244 ± 63 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(366 ± 26) x 10 6 ly (112.1 ± 7.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | November 29, 1837 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 698 • PGC 6710 • ESO 353-051 • MCG -06-05-005 • IRAS F01475-3504 • 2MASX J01494371-3449517 • SGC 014731-3504.7 • GC 417 • GALEX ASC J014943.64-344950.1 | |
NGC 698 is a 14 mag bright bar spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Fornax in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 366 million light years from the Milky Way and about 100,000 light years in diameter. It probably forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair with NGC 696 .
In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy IC 1739 .
The object was discovered on November 29, 1837 by the British astronomer John Herschel .