NGC 926
| Galaxy NGC 926 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | whale |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 02 h 26 m 06.7 s |
| declination | -00 ° 19 ′ 55 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) bc: / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.8 ′ × 1 ′ |
| Position angle | 36 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | +0.021418 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 6421 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(288 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (88.2 ± 6.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ernst Leberecht Temple |
| Discovery date | 1876 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 926 • UGC 1901 • PGC 9256 • CGCG 388-014 • MCG + 00-07-011 • IRAS 02235-0033 • 2MASX J02260670-0019552 • GALEX ASC J022606.75-001953.2 | |
NGC 926 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Whale south of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 288 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 150,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 934 and NGC 936 .
The property was built in 1876 by the astronomer Wilhelm Tempel using a 28.3-cm - telescope discovered.