NGC 677

NGC 677
SDSS image of NGC 677
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Aries
Right ascension	01^h 49^m 14.050^s[1]
Declination	+13° 03′ 19.28″[1]
Redshift	0.01693[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	5033 ± 3 km/s[2]
Distance	221.6 Mly (67.95 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)	12.27[4]
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.26[4]
Characteristics
Type	E[4]
Apparent size (V)	2.0′ × 2.0′[5]
Other designations
UGC 1275, MCG +02-05-042, PGC 6673[2]

NGC 677 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Aries. It was discovered on September 25, 1886, by the astronomer Lewis A. Swift.^[5] It is located about 200 million light-years (70 megaparsecs) from Earth^[3] at the center of a rich galaxy cluster.^[6] It has a LINER nucleus.^[6]

According to A.M. Garcia, NGC 677 is a member of the NGC 673 Group (also known as LGG 31). This group contains at least 17 galaxies, including IC 156, IC 162, NGC 665, NGC 673, NGC 683, and 11 galaxies from the UGC catalogue. ^[7]

References

1. 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.
2. "NGC 677". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
3. Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 655 (2): 790–813. arXiv:astro-ph/0610732. Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C. doi:10.1086/510201. S2CID 11672751.
4. "Search specification: NGC 677". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
5. Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 650 - 699". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
6. Kolokythas, Konstantinos; o'Sullivan, Ewan; Raychaudhury, Somak; Giacintucci, Simona; Gitti, Myriam; Babul, Arif (2018). "The Complete Local Volume Groups Sample - II. A study of the Central Radio Galaxies in the High–Richness Sub-sample". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. arXiv:1807.11095. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2030.
7. Garcia, A. M. (1993). "General study of group membership. II. Determination of nearby groups". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 100: 47. Bibcode:1993A&AS..100...47G.

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)