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NGC 890
NGC 890
	Pan-STARRS image of NGC 890
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Triangulum
Right ascension	02h 22m 01.008s
Declination	+33° 15′ 57.94″
Redshift	0.0138
Heliocentric radial velocity	4108 km/s
Distance	180.2 ± 12.7 Mly (55.24 ± 3.88 Mpc)
Apparent magnitude (V)	11.05
Apparent magnitude (B)	12.5
Absolute magnitude (V)	−21.7
Characteristics
Type	SAB0−(r)?
Other designations
	UGC 1823, MCG +05-06-030, PGC 8997

NGC 890 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It is estimated to be 180 million light-years from the Milky Way^[3] and has a diameter of approximately 130,000 ly. NGC 890 was discovered on September 13, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel.^[4]^[5]

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 "NGC 890". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Results for object NGC 0890 (NGC 890)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 890". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 890 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-19.