Astronomy:NGC 740

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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Triangulum
NGC 740 (Vale Severis)
NGC740 - SDSS DR14.jpg
NGC 740 imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationTriangulum
Right ascension 01h 56m 54.867s[1]
Declination+33° 00′ 54.63″[1]
Helio radial velocity4,518[2] km/s
Distance198.9 Mly (60.98 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)14.9
Characteristics
TypeSBb?[3]
Mass2.48×1012[2] M
Size1,100 kly[2]
Apparent size (V)1.017 × 0.264′[1]
Other designations
UGC 1421, MCG+05-05-031, PGC 7316[4]

NGC 740 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Triangulum constellation. It is estimated to be 210 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 85,000 light-years. It was discovered by the Irish engineer Bindon Stoney, an assistant to William Parsons.[5][6][7]

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 Crook, Aidan C. et al. (February 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. 
  3. de Vaucouleurs, G. et al. (1991). Third reference catalogue of bright galaxies. 3.9. New York: Springer-Verlag. 
  4. "NGC 740". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+740. 
  5. Rojas, Sebastián García. "Galaxy NGC 740 - Barred Spiral Galaxy in Triangulum Constellation" (in en). https://telescopius.com/deep-sky/object/1635/ngc-740/galaxy?fromdsobrowser. 
  6. "DOCdb - NGC 740". http://www.docdb.net/show_object.php?id=ngc_740. 
  7. "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+740&img_stamp=YES. 

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