NGC 911

Galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

NGC 911
Pan-STARRS image of NGC 911
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Andromeda
Right ascension	02^h 25^m 42.397^s^[1]
Declination	+41° 57′ 22.59″^[1]
Redshift	0.01885^[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	5598 km/s^[2]
Distance	257.9 Mly (79.07 Mpc)^[3]
Group or cluster	Abell 347^[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	14.0^[2]
Characteristics
Type	E^[2]
Other designations
UGC 1878, MCG +07-06-016, PGC 9221^[2]

NGC 911 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda about 258 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1878.^[4]^[5]^[6] It is a member of the galaxy cluster Abell 347.^[2]

References

^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "NGC 911". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
^ 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.
^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 911 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
^ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 911". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.