Astronomy:NGC 1683

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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Orion
NGC 1683
NGC 1683 DSS.jpg
DSS image of NGC 1683
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationOrion
Right ascension 04h 52m 17.639s[1]
Declination−03° 01′ 27.96″[1]
Redshift3941 km/s[2]
Helio radial velocity0.013146[2]
Distance175.1 Mly (53.69 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)15.58[4]
Characteristics
TypeSa? pec sp[2]
Apparent size (V)1.2′ × 0.4′[2]
Other designations
NGC 1683, PGC 16209[5]

NGC 1683[2][6] is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Orion. The object was discovered in 1850 by the Irish astronomer William Parsons.

NGC 1682 to NGC 1685 with the legacy surveys. NGC 1683 is the small edge-on galaxy near the middle-right of the image.

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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 2.4 "NED results for object NGC 1683". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=NGC+1683&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. Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal 655 (2): 790–813. doi:10.1086/510201. Bibcode2007ApJ...655..790C. 
  4. Jones, D. Heath et al. (October 2009), "The 6dF Galaxy Survey: final redshift release (DR3) and southern large-scale structures", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 399 (2): 683–698, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15338.x, Bibcode2009MNRAS.399..683J 
  5. "NGC 1683". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+1683. 
  6. Frommert, Hartmut. "NGC 1683". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.cgi?NGC1683.