Astronomy:NGC 584

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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Cetus
NGC 584
NGC584 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 584
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationCetus
Right ascension 01h 31m 20.755s[1]
Declination−06° 52′ 05.02″[1]
Redshift0.006011[2]
Helio radial velocity1802[2]
Distance62.28 ± 10.84 Mly (19.094 ± 3.323 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)10.48
Apparent magnitude (B)11.44
Characteristics
TypeE4[2]
Apparent size (V)2.983' × 1.850'[1]
Other designations
IC 1712, MCG-01-04-060, PGC 5663[3]

NGC 584 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered on 10 September 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.

It is about 20 megaparsecs (60 million light-years) distant.[4] NGC 584 belongs to the NGC 584 galaxy group, which also includes the galaxies NGC 596, NGC 600, NGC 615 and NGC 636.[5]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode2006AJ....131.1163S. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "NED results for object NGC 0584". National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=NGC+584&extend=no&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES. 
  3. "NGC 584". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+584. 
  4. OBEY - NGC 584
  5. Makarov, Dmitry; Karachentsev, Igor (21 April 2011). "Galaxy groups and clouds in the local (z∼ 0.01) Universe". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 412 (4): 2498–2520. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18071.x. Bibcode2011MNRAS.412.2498M. http://www.sao.ru/hq/dim/groups/galaxies.dat. Retrieved 18 May 2017. 

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