NGC 904
| Galaxy NGC 904 |
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| NGC 903 & NGC 904 SDSS image | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Aries |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 02 h 24 m 05.6 s |
| declination | + 27 ° 20 ′ 33 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E3 |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017879 +/- 0.000103 |
| Radial velocity | 5360 +/- 31 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(244 ± 17) x 10 6 ly (74.8 ± 5.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Edouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | December 13, 1884 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 904 • UGC 1852 • PGC 9112 • CGCG 483-028 • MCG + 04-06-024 • KUG 0221 + 271 • 2MASX J02240554 + 2720329 • LDCE 162 NED004 | |
NGC 904 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E3 in the constellation Aries north of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 244 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 85,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 903 , NGC 915 , NGC 916 , NGC 919 , among others .
The object was on 13 December 1884 by the astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80-cm - telescope discovered.
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