Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiC
- Redshift
- z = 0.015981997515260637
- Morphology
- Sc
- Coordinates
- RA 75.9043° · Dec 1.5734°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Orion
- Right ascension
- 05 03 37.0784
- Declination
- +01 ° 34 ′ 24.113 ″
- Redshift
- 0.015 858 ± 0.000 007 00
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,754 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 275.44 ± 22.19 Mly (84.450 ± 6.805 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 1762 group (LGG 120)
- Type
- SA(rs)c
- Size
- ~149,200 ly (45.73 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.7′ × 1.1′
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1762 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Orion. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 4,739±2 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 228.0 ± 15.9 Mly (69.90 ± 4.89 Mpc). However, 10 non-redshift measurements give a farther mean distance of 275.44 ± 22.19 Mly (84.450 ± 6.805 Mpc). It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 8 October 1785.
NGC 1762 has a possible active galactic nucleus, i.e. it has a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1762” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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