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NGC 769
NGC 769
	SDSS image of NGC 769
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Triangulum
Right ascension	01h 59m 35.915s
Declination	+30° 54′ 35.65″
Redshift	0.0148
Heliocentric radial velocity	4404 km/s
Distance	177 Mly (54.2 Mpc)
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.4
Characteristics
Type	Sc
Other designations
	UGC 1467, MCG +05-05-037, PGC 7537

NGC 769 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Triangulum about 197 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Truman Safford in 1866.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References edit

^ ^a ^b Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
^ Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 21. arXiv:1605.01765. Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. S2CID 250737862. 50.
^ ^a ^b "NGC 769". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
^ "Search specification: NGC 769". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 769 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
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