NGC 787
| Galaxy NGC 787 |
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| Constellation | whale |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 02 h 00 m 48.6 s |
| declination | -09 ° 00 ′ 09 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R) SA (rs) b: |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.50 × 1.9 |
| Position angle | 90 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015744 +/- 0.000087 |
| Radial velocity | 4720 +/- 26 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(211 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (64.8 ± 4.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters |
| Discovery date | February 27, 1865 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 787 • PGC 7632 • MCG -02-06-015 • IRAS F01583-0914 • 2MASX J02004858-09000905 • NSA 023163 | |
NGC 787 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Cetus south of the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 211 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 155,000 ly
. a. the galaxies NGC 747 , NGC 767 , NGC 809 , NGC 811 .
The object was discovered on February 27, 1865 by the German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters .
Web links
Commons : NGC 787 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 787. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 20, 2016 (English).
- NGC 787. DSO Browser, accessed March 20, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d NGC 787. NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), accessed on March 20, 2016 (English).
- ↑ a b c d e f Hartmut Frommert: NGC 787. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, accessed on March 20, 2016 (English).
- ^ Courtney Seligman: New General Catalog Objects: NGC 750 - 799. Retrieved March 20, 2016 (English).