Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 48 57.3148
- Declination
- +05 ° 54 ′ 27.082 ″
- Distance
- 18.7 Mpc (61 Mly )
- Apparent magnitude v
- 10.5 +/- 0.4
- Type
- S0/a: edge-on
- Size
- ~88,700 ly (27.20 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 4.0 ′ × 1.2 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 676 is a lenticular Seyfert 2 galaxy in the constellation Pisces. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1217 ± 20 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 58.6 ± 4.2 Mly (17.96 ± 1.29 Mpc). In addition, two non redshift measurements give a distance of 61.0 ± 2.6 Mly (18.7 ± 0.8 Mpc). The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 30 September 1786.
NGC 676 can be seen near the star α Piscium. Located close to the celestial equator, it is visible from both hemispheres. BD +04 0244, a star with a visual magnitude of 10.44, is superposed 5.1 arc seconds south-southwest of the nucleus. It is one of the 621 galaxies described in Marat Arakelian's catalog of high-surface-brightness galaxies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 676” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.